Seems the "Go away an' buy a road-bike" crew is dictating policy. Boy does this boil my skin!! What is so bloody difficult not to see that a hybrid is a worthy genre of the species 'bicycle?' I'll bet if we said we wanted a Unicycle Forum - we'd have that in a day. But there is some weird phobia saying our hybrids aren't worthy of recognition.
Even though fully 1/2 of cyclists where I live ride them.