Originally Posted by
sheddle
There was also the whole "Cross" series of dying-period Schwinns, some of which were actually kind of nice.
We still haven't figured out what to call them. Hybrids? Flat-bar road bikes? "Fitness bikes"?
Bianchi used a similar variation, calling them cross-terrain bicycles but the most widely employed terminology was hybrid bicycles, as that is how Bicycling magazine categorized them. These days there are all kinds of sub-categories within the four general categories of road, track, ATB and hybrids. It's getting hard to keep up the increasing diversification of specialty models.