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Love that Cargobike

what did you do with ed?

My wife wants to sell her Mixte. anyone know how much I should be asking roughly?

Is that a Jack Taylor?? definitely over £300 judging by how well looked after it is and the rear hub gear.

beautiful isn't is? however, I should have mentioned it's not a JT, it's something unknown but very high quality and refinished by the great JT. I built it a for my wife quite a while ago, and don't really know what I should be asking for it.

I stumbled across your pedal room page, you got nice bikes :)

So nice. So $$$$$$$

I would go higher than Ed - its easily a £400 bike IMO

I was going to suggest less but my ebay trawl of 'nice' mixtes suggests otherwise:
Nice Mercian sold for £695
Ratty Mercian sold for £400
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mercian-Reynolds-653-Mixte-Road-Bike-Dura-Ace-XT-DT-Swiss-/281797260866?hash=item419c6cf642%3Ag%3AbSgAAOSwWnFV8vmV&nma=true&si=Q7DtohU5BB3zfQQCD2tXPGaf3zw%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

Given the unkown builder I'd suggest £4-500 is a good bet.
But mixtes aren't a limited market so they may not find much interest.

Weird, can't edit the lower part of that post, it should read 'are a limited market' not aren't. Also can't remove that link.

This looks like fun & functional

Looks ace.

10/10 would ride
this is literally made for 'great' quality Hungarian roads hehe

Lovely bike, beer won't survive in them cages tho.

Thanks for the advice on the Mixte everyone.

That ritchey is lovely.

sweet pomp, 26" front wheel and fork yes? i have a set of forks and a wheel and have been thinking of doing the same, how is it? any ill effects?

My functional offering is coming together. Impressed with the Schwalbe Big Bens.

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Does anyone make wide, relatively light 26" rims for rim brakes, or is there something vintage I should look out for?

The great thing about 26" rims is that they're already reasonably light.

The XM317 is reasonably light, got double wall and eyelit.

Trials rims are readily available in 26" and as wide as you want.

They'll not be super light but shouldn't be too bad considering the width. You can get single wall and cut/drilled out if you want to sacrifice a bit of strength for lightweight-ness.

Not massively wide though. Looking around, I always though my d521 was hugely porky, but it turns out it's not too bad at 580g, considering how indestructable it is. Was considering the benefits of those fancy new compass tyres and am struggling to see how you'd make the most of a 55mm tyre on a 21mm internal rim.