Its a middle ground between a Betty and a Beater but have you considered Soma's Buena vista? A quick google search shows them between $375 and 475 for the Frameset. I don't have personal experience with them but it seems like a sweet frame and good bang for the buck.
I am actually building up a Mixte for my wife right now from a older CroMo Schwinn that I actually found for free at the side of the road. After taking it all apart its going to need some lovin' but I can't argue with the price of the bike. In Seattle I frequently see "Ladies 3 speeds" for decent prices on Craigslist an older english ladies bike will be plenty strong (IMO) but not light. R On Sep 1, 12:41 pm, JoelMatthews <joelmatth...@mac.com> wrote: > > - Rene Herse > > - Alex Singer > > - Jack Taylor > > Well, yeah, I'll concede those three ;) > > But the chances of finding a Herse or Singer on Craigslist or on eBay > with a starting bid less than $1k are virtually nill. Jack Taylor > does not have quite the cachet in the U.S. as its French counterparts > (though indeed, it ought to), so you might get lucky. More once in a > blue moon type of thing. > > There are any number of bike boom French mixtes, Japanese came at the > tail end of the boom. Some good and some not so good. Schwinn made > some nice middle weight mixtes. I would hesitate to recommend them > here, as the proprietary sizing will make squeezing in Riv parts more > of chore than with the French and Japanese. > > On Sep 1, 1:16 pm, Steve Palincsar <palin...@his.com> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 09:57 -0600, PATRICK MOORE wrote: > > > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 7:45 AM, JoelMatthews <joelmatth...@mac.com> > > > wrote: > > > > Off hand, I cannot think of one brand better than another. > > > OK, here are three: > > > - Rene Herse > > - Alex Singer > > - Jack Taylor- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
