Anyone able to help Stills gallery with info/suggestions on some old cycling images?
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Stills mystery photos
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Posted 11 years ago #
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Other than dating them to the late 40s or early fifties, and locating them a few km south east of Lyon, I can't - "Tour de Trosième Âge"?
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I was able to identify that one of the cyclists appeared to be in a pair of Chuck Taylor high-tops and that the name on the jersey was a french Tyre / wheel manufacturer.
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The photographer is female perhaps? Has a step-through frame anyway.
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Mixte frames like that used to be a lot more common - and were regarded as unisex - though a friend who used to have one always refered to it as the girly bike...
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I don't think it's a mixte. Looks more like a single top tube to me. Perhaps the Tatiesque figure holding his/her bike for the group shot is an admirer.
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Aye, some mixtes do have a single top tube - but afaik only mixtes have 3 stays at the rear of the bike.
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Aye, some mixtes do have a single top tube
They do? I was always under impression that the defining feature of the mixte was instead of a top tube there is a pair of stays wrapping around the seat tube and forming a continuous line between dropout and headtube? If it has a tube, instead of stays, then it's just a step through? Then again it's entirely reasonable that I've gotten the wrong end of the stick. Before my time and all that.
Flying Scot made some beautiful mixtes under the name "Queen of Scots".
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Looking at the photo closely the bike resembles a mixte due to two sets of seat stays. Yet it has a single top tube like a step-through.
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Check out Sheldon or even Wikipedia - the triple stays are definitive, the top tube is variable. The bike under the Col du Grand Bois sign is a mixte. For a photographer nipping on and off the bike it makes sense. I'm not saying what the gender is, i'm saying the bike is post-war French mixte frame
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Random example (pretty too).
Motobecane Mixte (ebay) by phil varner, on FlickrPosted 11 years ago # -
Okay so a variation on the normal mixte has a single top tube but I still think it's more likely to belong to a female rider. I mean look at the guy holding the bike. Isn't there something more in his look than, hurry up for god sake my arm's going to sleep. Of course he could be gay.
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No one has yet mentioned that the bikes in those photos are kitted out for randonneuring. Wide tyres, mudguards, bar bags, saddle bags. The mechanic with overalls emblazoned 'Endurance Cyclo' ought to be a clue too... ;-)
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