Originally Posted by
rookgirl
I've been dreaming of Porteur bars on a mixte - do you think it really has to be a French mixte to do this? Would using, say, an English or Japanese bike be mixing metaphors?
I think porteur bars look fantastic on any mixte, regardless of origin. I would have put porteur bars on my wife's Soma, but I already had the Albatross bars in the parts bin and was trying to minimize costs. But if I didn't already have the A-bars, I would have gone with porteur bars, no doubt!