Leslie - the good news is that after you mentioned the bottle mounts I went and checked my frame - there are two sets of mounts for water bottles on the Platypus! 🥰 Rivendell mixtes >All other mixtes.
On Thursday, January 28, 2021 at 1:24:50 PM UTC-8 Leslie Tierstein wrote: > The only difference I found is that, since the mixte doesn't have a > traditional down tube, it didn't have a down tube braze-on for a water > bottle cage. How it rides depends on other design characteristics. Also, > there's no top tube, so no pressing your thighs against the top tube when > you go downhill. But I have that same issue with my folding bike. > > On Wednesday, January 27, 2021 at 9:01:13 AM UTC-5 Eric Daume wrote: > >> I had a Cheviot for a brief spell. I found it a surprisingly zippy >> feeling bike, which I attributed to some nice flex in the frame. But, a >> mixte really is a trip thru design for me, so I didn’t see any advantage >> for mounting or dismounting. >> >> Eric >> >> On Wednesday, January 27, 2021, Melanie <myo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> All this discussion of mixtes on the list has made me curious. I’ve >>> never ridden a mixte. Other than mounting/dismounting, do owners of both >>> types of bikes experience any real differences between riding a mixte and >>> riding a diamond frame? >>> >>> Mixte-curious Melanie >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >>> >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com. >> >> >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/731b9985-0c64-458e-92d0-989902827530n%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/731b9985-0c64-458e-92d0-989902827530n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/e2810eb0-59fc-4678-9f2c-c4008d9b98a1n%40googlegroups.com.
