My first post here, and I would love to see a hybrid forum.
I pedal a KHS urban x-cel and love it, and my wife is getting a Scott Sportster P4
for Christmas which will be an upgrade over what she's riding now.
We live in Michigan, and I at least, ride year round as long as the snow doesn't get to silly depths. We pedal locally in s.e. Michigan on the paved tracks, but have pedaled countless miles on the rail to trails and paved bike trails in northern Michigan. I love it, and can't get enough of it and have lost 120 pounds doing it.