Originally Posted by
Bianchigirll
Nice find, it looks tall for a Mixte. It is certainly worth fixing up and making a decent rider of it but if your idea of restoring it something like SouthPawBoston did that would be strictly a labor of love. A good overhaul with tires and cable should make this a great rider.
I haven't got a metric tape measure handy, but it looks like it's a 22.5" frame. I'm on the tall side, but have somewhat short legs, so it seems to fit me pretty well.
At the moment, I haven't really got the workspace to pull off a full-on restoration of the type that southpaw took on. A repaint would involve me sitting outside for hours on end while the paint dries, just to make sure that the damn thing doesn't wander off on it's own. I'll probably just content myself with enough of a functional recondition so that it'll be a bit better as a daily rider. I'm not absolutely keeping everything completely original, but I find myself leaning towards at least keeping it all more or less period appropriate. I'd just feel weird slapping something too space-age looking on a bike like this.