Originally Posted by
Dirtdrop
I suggest that you look for frame that has the rear brake mounted on the middle par of stays instead of on the seat stays. Otherwise you have to use a special "upside down" rear brake like on Neals bike above or end up with some wierd brake cable routing like on my mixte.
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I'm curious about the lug that bionicycle mentioned. Mine has no such lug and I haven't seen on that has.
I've never seen one with the twin tubes welded directly to the seat tube either.
There is normally a reinforcing plate there. If the tubes were welded directly to the seat tube, there would be no room between them for fenders and possibly for tires.
Yea.. I think I was wrong in calling it a lug, in the normal sence. It is much more of a "reinforcing plate" as you call it. The way my Fuji is made though, I would not be able to mount a brake on it; as I have seen on other Mixte frames.
I do remeber seeing a picture of a mixte type frame once, that had the two down tubes just spot welded, or brazed to the seat tube, it had a little cross tube brace in front of the seat tube, and one up closer to the head tube. But after the seat tube the twin down tubes just flared out to the dropouts.
But, seeing as how I can't remeber where I saw it, or what name brand it was... feel free to discount it as bunk for now.
It may have been some kind of custom frame... I looked at soo many pictures of Mixtes there for a while, trying to get some ideas for mine. Lord only knows where I may have seen it.