I didn't catch that it was a mixte frame. How do you figure that, D*Alex?
Because he said it was a
ladies frame. Mixte is a French term, meaning roughly "ladies frame".
How does a mixte frame deduct from the value?
Go to any charity store, or bike shop which sells used bikes. the mixte frames go for half the price of a "man's" frame. Ask a bike shop how much a mixte of anything is worth-they'll tell you-there is no resale value on them. go to any ghetto neighborhood in the USA. All the "homeys" are riding mixtes. Why? Because the shops can't sell them, so they give them away in poor neighborhoods-they are worth more as a tax write-off than as a piece of merchaindise.
To this day, I haven't seen a single used mixte frame bike sell for more than $20, even in good condition. Even good old Raleigh 3-speed roadsters.