Originally Posted by
PeteHski
The MTB world pretty much went straight from 3x to 1x. There was always the double + bash ring option for those who didn’t see the point of a big ring on their MTB. But once 1x took hold nearly a decade ago then nobody looked back.
I don’t remember triples ever being popular on road bikes except for touring. All my road bikes have been 2x since the early 80s.
I consider most hybrids to have been flat bar road bikes because that's how they were generally used in the States. They were, for a while, THE utility bikes here. It was very common to have triples on them.
What I don't know about MTB could fill volumes.