Just reading over his thread to see what I had ruined and I realize I ruined it on page one! Fun reliving those early contentious days of hybrid writing. This thread started as a troll, the OP who turned out to be an OK guy, never rode an FX. Meanwhile he receives advice a year later on how to make his FX faster... haha
Originally Posted by
Sixty Fiver
So this is my hybrid which should now meet with qmsdc's criteria for what makes a hybrid a hybrid... and
I actually think he was traumatized by a set of drop bars in his youth.
But I will tour on this... another one of those 80's bikes like the Trek 750 that was sold as a mountain bike but was really a touring bike with flat bars.

I think it was when that fat guy on the beach cruiser passed me running while I was "racing" my drop bar MTB, (if thirty-something counts as my youth...)