Originally Posted by
raqball
In all fairness though, the bikes the OP listed are more flat bar road bike'ish than Hybrid.. To me there is a big difference between what I'd call a Hybrid and what I'd call a flat bar road bike..
Everyone is different.. I feel like I am beating a dead horse here.. I do distance just fine and I have no issues.. Also, my flat bar road bike has the exact same gearing as a drop bar road bike.. As a matter of fact most of the high end flat bar road bikes have the same frame, gearing = everything that a drop bar road bike has and the ONLY difference is one has a drop bar and one has a flat bar..
Fair enough. 2 years ago, I considered some of the newer performance hybrids. Cannondale Quick, Jamis Coda, Trek fx, etc...test rode a few. Yes, these bikes are lighter and more road oriented than my old hybrid. But I was ready to make the jump to.a drop bar road bike. Of course, since I have a hybrid and a mountain bike, I really don't need my road bike to handle trail riding I considered getting interrupter brake levers, but I quickly adapted to braking from the hoods, so never bought them.
i find riding on the hoods and ramps far more comfortable on the hands and wrists than riding flat bars. And while the first few weeks on the Salsa was an adjustment, I have come to prefer the stretched out feeling riding the 55 cm Salsa over riding the much smaller 18"Bianchi.