Originally Posted by
Kapusta
“Hybrid” is quite possibly the most useless and vague cycle-related term ever coined.
The sooner things get labeled more usefully, the better.
When we first started selling "hybrids" in our shop in the early 1990's, many people were also calling them "cross bikes". But then cyclocross rose in popularity in the states, and that sport quickly stole the term away from the booming hybrid market. Very few people knew about the existence of cyclocross in our market in the early to mid 90s.
Does anyone else remember hybrids being called "cross bikes"?