Frank Krygowski wrote:

You seem to require twin top tubes to qualify
as a mixte.

Isn't that the definition?

I'd base my decision on whether it had the
extra set of stays connecting the seat tube
to the rear dropouts.

Is that a common design? Here mixtes (twin top
tubes) are very common but I don't think I've
seen that.

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