The guy who thinks 65ers bike is a touring bike, me, fitted his first mountain bike with drop bars and was pictured on the cover of Spokes magazine racing it. At that time, I would have called it a mountain bike, but maybe it was a hybrid. I never thought of it as a road bike.
Originally Posted by
meanwhile
Arguing that a bike with drops must be a road bike so it can't be a hybrid is a bit weird when you consider drop bar mountain bikes...
And the argument that "It can't be a hybrid, if it has drops it's a tourer" is even sillier - most modern tourers don't have drops! in Europe, where most tourers are sold, butterfly bars - flats with built in bar ends - are the norm.
A bike with drop bars, touring geometry, touring gears, 700c tires, racks, isn't a hybrid just because it has drop bars. It takes more than drop bars to make a bike a hybrid.