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Old 02-15-11 | 11:23 AM
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Originally Posted by triplebutted
Oh I like that mixtegallery site.
Thank you.

I got busy with things and shut it down for a while. I recently got it going again but want to work through my backlog before opening it up for new submissions.

Just hosting the gallery doesn't make me an expert, but to me the thing that distinguishes a mixte is three sets of stays: Chainstays, seatstays and what I call midstays. The midstays should extend all the way to the headtube, either as two stays or (as on older Schwinn and the newer Rivendell Betty Foy) as a single top tube that continues the line of the midstays.
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