Originally Posted by
MRT2
Not bad advise, but I take issue with two points. Not all road bikes are like riding with your head between your knees. Lots of relaxed geometry road bikes. Second, while a minority of hybrids are flat bar road bikes, more typically they are mountain bikes with 700c wheels.
After 16 years of MTB's and when I went road I rode on the flat of thge bars. Even going forward to the hoods felt strange and I could not get down into the drops for more than 20 seconds for about 6 months. That was a relaxed geometry bike aswell but after the MTB's it felt very strange. But a hybrid will have Rigid forks. If it has suspension forks it will either be a "Comfort" bike or a "29er" The corresponding weight is not anywhere near a road bike either. That is not the original form of a hybrid which is a road bike with straight bars over here and I dare say the US too. But I have also seen the term "Hybrid" applied to electric bikes by one big manufacturer
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