Originally Posted by
dwoloz
The thing I personally look for in mixtes is the tubing juncture of the two slender long tubes and the seat tube. Some will simply be TIG wleded while others have more favorable unique lugs of their own.
The Bianchi mixtes all seem to have that seat lug-- or at least the hybrids do. However, instead of the two lateral tubes, they have a single lateral tube joined at the seat by a lug, and then two lateral tubes welded to the lug continuing back to the dropout.
Every other mixte I've seen has had the lateral tubes welded to the seat tube.