Originally Posted by
goagain
Just chiming in with my single bit of knowledge: I'm a real newbie, but I have memorized the Cypress info, at least for the women's models.
Giant calls the Cypress a "comfort bike," but it has been described to me by a biker as a hybrid. I don't have a clue which it is.
It's both. A hybrid can mean anything from a comfort bike to a flat-bar road bike, IMO.
Just like there are at least 5 different Mountain Bike sub-genres these days, hybrids also have sub-genres.