Originally Posted by brentd

Thanks. And yeah, I kinda realize I'm a bit scatterbrained. I'm new to all of this "real" biking (as opposed to casual riding as a kid). I've had plenty of folks say a hybrid is good for what we'd likely be doing, or comfort bike would work, or a mountain bike with tires that aren't too thick in tread would work. I don't see us doing any speedy racing or anything like that...probably mostly nice casual rides. But at the same time those might be 5-10 miles at a time or something when we get used to it.