LiT's Mixte
EKE_38BPM
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It isn't in your sig. You're not embarrased I hope. Its old school cool.
Any idea how much it weighs?
Any idea how much it weighs?
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FCN 9: B Twin Vitamin - winter commuter/loan bike for trainees
I'm hungry. I'm always hungry!
FCN 4: Planet X Schmaffenschmack 2- workhorse
FCN 9: B Twin Vitamin - winter commuter/loan bike for trainees
I'm hungry. I'm always hungry!
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........and do you say "mickstee" or "mikst" as I've heard both pronounciations and don't whish to appear ignorant when it comes up in polite conversation next time I'm at a garden party.FCN 5 belt driven fixie for city bits
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I say "mickstee", but what do I know. Find a francophone for the correct answer methinks.FCN 3: Raleigh Record Ace fixie-to be resurrected sometime in the future
FCN 4: Planet X Schmaffenschmack 2- workhorse
FCN 9: B Twin Vitamin - winter commuter/loan bike for trainees
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I started with mickstee (subconciously seemed to be rhyming it with fixie) but think I'm tending toward mikst now. Maybe 'cause I ride fikst, innit.0
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Meekst for the proper French pronunciation. Mixty if you're a yank. They are completely inconsistent about this sort of thing: a 'fillay' of fish? It's fillET FFS.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
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Mickstee fixie or mikst fixed. Works both ways.FCN 3: Raleigh Record Ace fixie-to be resurrected sometime in the future
FCN 4: Planet X Schmaffenschmack 2- workhorse
FCN 9: B Twin Vitamin - winter commuter/loan bike for trainees
I'm hungry. I'm always hungry!0 -
Never trust a yank for pronounciation of words.FCN 3: Raleigh Record Ace fixie-to be resurrected sometime in the future
FCN 4: Planet X Schmaffenschmack 2- workhorse
FCN 9: B Twin Vitamin - winter commuter/loan bike for trainees
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The natives.FCN 3: Raleigh Record Ace fixie-to be resurrected sometime in the future
FCN 4: Planet X Schmaffenschmack 2- workhorse
FCN 9: B Twin Vitamin - winter commuter/loan bike for trainees
I'm hungry. I'm always hungry!0 -
EKE_38BPM wrote:Any idea how much it weighs?
It weighs nothing - it's a vapourcycle. It never infact existed at all. Just part of LiTs attempt to get us believing that she cycles through hazy, soft focus country lanes wearing flowery frocks with the sun glinting through her hair - a bit like a 1970s flake advert on a bicycle
(pics LiT - that's an order!)Faster than a tent.......0 -
Rolf F wrote:EKE_38BPM wrote:Any idea how much it weighs?
It weighs nothing - it's a vapourcycle. It never infact existed at all. Just part of LiTs attempt to get us believing that she cycles through hazy, soft focus country lanes wearing flowery frocks with the sun glinting through her hair - a bit like a 1970s flake advert on a bicycle
(pics LiT - that's an order!)
Not true, I've seen it and it is rather nice (in a 1970s, Flake advert kind of way).
Pics to appear in Cycle Active magazine, I thinkFCN 3: Raleigh Record Ace fixie-to be resurrected sometime in the future
FCN 4: Planet X Schmaffenschmack 2- workhorse
FCN 9: B Twin Vitamin - winter commuter/loan bike for trainees
I'm hungry. I'm always hungry!0 -
Rolf F wrote:EKE_38BPM wrote:Any idea how much it weighs?
It weighs nothing - it's a vapourcycle. It never infact existed at all. Just part of LiTs attempt to get us believing that she cycles through hazy, soft focus country lanes wearing flowery frocks with the sun glinting through her hair - a bit like a 1970s flake advert on a bicycle
(pics LiT - that's an order!)
I'm beginning to think that it's all some elaborate joke at mine and Buns' expense. Mind you I've been sharing much of the same route as DDD for a good couple of years and still not seen him.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Bad news: Those pics will probably have me, JZed, NotSoBlue and Sketchley in them too.FCN 3: Raleigh Record Ace fixie-to be resurrected sometime in the future
FCN 4: Planet X Schmaffenschmack 2- workhorse
FCN 9: B Twin Vitamin - winter commuter/loan bike for trainees
I'm hungry. I'm always hungry!0 -
rjsterry wrote:Rolf F wrote:EKE_38BPM wrote:Any idea how much it weighs?
It weighs nothing - it's a vapourcycle. It never infact existed at all. Just part of LiTs attempt to get us believing that she cycles through hazy, soft focus country lanes wearing flowery frocks with the sun glinting through her hair - a bit like a 1970s flake advert on a bicycle
(pics LiT - that's an order!)
I'm beginning to think that it's all some elaborate joke at mine and Buns' expense. Mind you I've been sharing much of the same route as DDD for a good couple of years and still not seen him.
He's the one standing on a chair in the bike shop (because there is a mouse running around), getting his steed serviced.FCN 3: Raleigh Record Ace fixie-to be resurrected sometime in the future
FCN 4: Planet X Schmaffenschmack 2- workhorse
FCN 9: B Twin Vitamin - winter commuter/loan bike for trainees
I'm hungry. I'm always hungry!0 -
I know, I want to upgrade the bar tape before taking pics - it's currently very cheap stuff and is already discoloured! I also have a very girly new pannier en-route...
And it's meekst, if you're feeling froggy, or mixed if not. Mikstee is just bizarre!0 -
LiT answers all.
Weight and size please?FCN 3: Raleigh Record Ace fixie-to be resurrected sometime in the future
FCN 4: Planet X Schmaffenschmack 2- workhorse
FCN 9: B Twin Vitamin - winter commuter/loan bike for trainees
I'm hungry. I'm always hungry!0 -
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On the pronunciation front I've also come across 'panyays' amongst many others.1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Funny. I meant the bike.
Err, to clarify, I meant the mixte.FCN 3: Raleigh Record Ace fixie-to be resurrected sometime in the future
FCN 4: Planet X Schmaffenschmack 2- workhorse
FCN 9: B Twin Vitamin - winter commuter/loan bike for trainees
I'm hungry. I'm always hungry!0 -
rjsterry wrote:On the pronunciation front I've also come across 'panyays' amongst many others.
That is the strangest pronounciation of mixte yet!FCN 3: Raleigh Record Ace fixie-to be resurrected sometime in the future
FCN 4: Planet X Schmaffenschmack 2- workhorse
FCN 9: B Twin Vitamin - winter commuter/loan bike for trainees
I'm hungry. I'm always hungry!0 -
lost_in_thought wrote:if you're feeling froggy
What you get up to in the privacy of your own home...
And it's "Meeekst", no American pronunciation here, please, we're British
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UndercoverElephant wrote:EKE_38BPM wrote:LiT answers all.
Weight and size please?
Two things you should never ask a lady. Same with age.
LiT answers all.
Age as well please!Faster than a tent.......0 -
EKE_38BPM wrote:LiT answers all.
Weight and size please?
Weight - not that light but considerably lighter than it was with the steel wheels on it.
Size - Large I think, not sure about that. And in a past life it was a Raleigh Romana.0 -
Rolf F wrote:UndercoverElephant wrote:EKE_38BPM wrote:LiT answers all.
Weight and size please?
Two things you should never ask a lady. Same with age.
LiT answers all.
Age as well please!
Erm, late 70s, early 80s I think. A bit older than me0 -
kelsen wrote:What LiT on her Mixte, wearing a flowery dress and eating a flake? I'm getting a copy!
Seriously didn't know how that sentence would end.“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
Mixte = "Mixed Tea" Or "Mixed"
In DDDglish that is.Food Chain number = 4
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Rolf F wrote:EKE_38BPM wrote:Any idea how much it weighs?
It weighs nothing - it's a vapourcycle. It never infact existed at all. Just part of LiTs attempt to get us believing that she cycles through hazy, soft focus country lanes wearing flowery frocks with the sun glinting through her hair - a bit like a 1970s flake advert on a bicycle
She does, but photographic technology isn't able to keep up with herDahon Speed Pro TT; Trek Portland
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