Originally Posted by RollCNY

You started this thread lamenting a wiki definition of a city bike. You later implied (or perhaps I inferred) that you intend to address erroneous wiki definitions. You used bold print and even CAPS to emphasize the outrageousness of the definitions offered on line, and then say that wiki has an obligation to fact check before posting. Everything on the internet, including this, is whatever some crack pot chooses to type.

There is no universal definition to what makes a hybrid a hybrid, or sub-divides the dozens or hundreds of sub-categories. Spend a few minutes reading the "best hybrid for $xxx" threads and someone will suggest a comfort, or a cyclocross, or a some-schumtz-a-butta, and then everyone will chime in on what makes a comfort a comfort. There should be no universal definition of what stereotypical small minded classification a specific bike falls into.

If you tell me my bike isn't a hybrid because it has no features to go off road, and it isn't a flat bar road bike because it has MTB pcs, and it isn't a city bike because it doesn't have a rear fender with a reflector, I am going to tell you to pound salt (which may be a CNY expression and if it makes no sense to you, sorry). Your definitions sound pretentious, small minded, and largely incorrect. Of course there are differences in bikes. But those differences are not carried in some cheese ball label, they are in the bike itself.

But have a great evening.