LiT's Mixte

EKE_38BPM
EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
edited April 2011 in Commuting chat
It isn't in your sig. You're not embarrased I hope. Its old school cool.

Any idea how much it weighs?
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  • SimonAH
    SimonAH Posts: 3,730
    ........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. :D
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    I say "mickstee", but what do I know. Find a francophone for the correct answer methinks.
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  • dhope
    dhope Posts: 6,699
    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.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,393
    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.
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    Mickstee fixie or mikst fixed. Works both ways.
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    Never trust a yank for pronounciation of words.
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  • kelsen
    kelsen Posts: 2,003
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    Never trust a yank for pronounciation of words.

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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    The natives.
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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    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 :lol:

    (pics LiT - that's an order!)
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    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 :lol:

    (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 think
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  • kelsen
    kelsen Posts: 2,003
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    Pics to appear in Cycle Active magazine, I think

    What LiT on her Mixte, wearing a flowery dress and eating a flake? I'm getting a copy!
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,393
    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 :lol:

    (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.
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    Bad news: Those pics will probably have me, JZed, NotSoBlue and Sketchley in them too.
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    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 :lol:

    (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.
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    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!
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    LiT answers all.
    Weight and size please?
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  • UndercoverElephant
    UndercoverElephant Posts: 5,796
    EKE_38BPM wrote:
    LiT answers all.
    Weight and size please?

    Two things you should never ask a lady. Same with age.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,393
    On the pronunciation front I've also come across 'panyays' amongst many others.
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    Funny. I meant the bike.

    Err, to clarify, I meant the mixte.
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  • EKE_38BPM
    EKE_38BPM Posts: 5,821
    rjsterry wrote:
    On the pronunciation front I've also come across 'panyays' amongst many others.

    That is the strangest pronounciation of mixte yet!
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  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,120
    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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  • rolf_f
    rolf_f Posts: 16,015
    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!
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    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.
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    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 me :)
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,354
    kelsen wrote:
    What LiT on her Mixte, wearing a flowery dress and eating a flake? I'm getting a copy!


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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    :lol::lol::lol:

    Mixte = "Mixed Tea" Or "Mixed"

    In DDDglish that is.
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  • stuaff
    stuaff Posts: 1,736
    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 :lol:

    She does, but photographic technology isn't able to keep up with her ;)
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