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Old 03-07-26 | 04:33 PM
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Originally Posted by noglider
Don't you mean the Super Course? I'm pretty sure they made a nice mixte by that name, and I was very familiar with the US-market Raleigh catalogs in the 1970s.
That threw me, too, at first. I lived through that decade and worked in a shop during the last third and I never heard of the bike then or since. The Super Course was three-tube Reynolds and they did make a nice mixte but I'm not sure if the sizes exceeded 21". I only just (since buying this Jeunet in November) found out about the Super Record in searching for other tall mixtes. Here's one belonging to forum member bwilli88 , built for his wife. I was shocked to learn they made a 24" tall mixte and would really like to find one that's actually obtainable. Found one 24" in Nashville but the guy was not interested in shipping and I could not find a facilitator.


You can see there are others out there, true seventies bikes but not many of them tall mixtes. That's why I was so surprised they'd escaped my attention for half a century.


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