Joined: Sep 2012
Posts: 779
Likes: 131
From: Back-of-beyond, Kootenays, BC
Bikes: Specialized Roubaix Expert Road and Specialized Stump Jumper FS Mountain; De Vinci Caribou touring, Intense Tracer T275c, Cramerotti, Specialized Allez, Condor, Marinoni, Kona Rove DL
Welcome aboard. I hope you find the bike you like. Any start is a good start but I can't really say anything about hybrid bikes. I don't see them on the road when I am road riding and I don't see them on the trails when I am mountain biking. So, unless they have a secret set of bike routes for hybrids only, I assume most of them stay safely in the garages of their owners.
Maybe that's different in more urban areas.