The one actual problem is the stupidity of 'renaming' the 700C wheel size. It has caused quite a bit of confusion... actually incredulity when you try to explain it to people and they wonder why there are two names for the exact same thing.

It would not have been complicated to call the bikes '29ers' and simply state that they have 700C wheels, instead of pretending 700C mtb tires are something completely unique.

I also get tired, however, of ignorant people constantly referring to them as 'hybrids.' They have as much in common with hybrids as 26" wheel mtbs have in common with the 'balloon tire bicycle' that my grandfather* delivered newspapers with in the 1940s.


(*actually, my grandfather did not ride a balloon tire bicycle. He rode an ordinary bicycle and once told me that him and his chums thought the boys that rode balloon tire bicycles "sat down to pee." )