What is a Hybrid Bicycle?
03-27-14, 09:13 PM
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What is a Hybrid Bicycle?
I'm having some work done on my shop website. With working out the details a question popped up. I have some ideas but I want to hear what everyone here has to say. So what is a hybrid bicycle to everyone in this forum?
03-27-14, 09:19 PM
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Oh, that's simple.
It's part real bicycle and part not so real bicycle.
You know, hybrid.
Cruiser mixed with track. Or touring mixed with recumbent. Tandem mixed with darned near anything.
You got a problem with that?
It's part real bicycle and part not so real bicycle.
You know, hybrid.
Cruiser mixed with track. Or touring mixed with recumbent. Tandem mixed with darned near anything.
You got a problem with that?
03-27-14, 09:36 PM
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The most straightforward answer is "a mountain bike with taller, skinnier tires"... but I'll take 'Spose's answers, too.
I know a transgender person who tours on a hand-and-foot-powered recumbent. How many kinds of hybrid is that?
I know a transgender person who tours on a hand-and-foot-powered recumbent. How many kinds of hybrid is that?
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They're supposed to be something between a sporty bike and a comfort bike.
Somewhat upright sitting posture with flat/riser bars, medium width tires, light/no suspension... etc.
Hybrid Bicycles
Somewhat upright sitting posture with flat/riser bars, medium width tires, light/no suspension... etc.
Hybrid Bicycles
03-28-14, 03:12 AM
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I know that there is a thread up in the Hybrids forum that covers this topic.
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03-28-14, 10:16 AM
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I think most consider a hybrid any bike that combines two different styles of cycling. A cyclocross bike would have been considered a hybrid 10 years ago. A mountain bike frame with a straight fork and smooth tires could be considered a hybrid. I think it's a broad definition that is open to interpretation.
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Hybrid is a concoction that initially spanned the gap between mountain (flat/riser bar) and road (drop bar) i.e. a mountain bike with skinny tires or a road bike with flat bars.
Since then hybrid has been subdivided to death into such things as fitness, comfort etc...
Since then hybrid has been subdivided to death into such things as fitness, comfort etc...
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03-28-14, 11:43 AM
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what many consider a Commuting cross bike is sticking Drop bars back on what was a Hybrid last year .
cyclocross racing bikes have gotten in the same multi K$ range of professional road bikes ..
cyclocross racing bikes have gotten in the same multi K$ range of professional road bikes ..
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It's what happens if you let a road bike and a mountain bike stay in the same room.
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First description of hybrids I heard in the mid-to-late 80's was 'skinny-tired mountain bike'.
My main rides for ten plus years were a Cannondale H300 and then a Novara Big Buzz. Quite different bikes but not to be mistaken for anything but hybrids.
My main rides for ten plus years were a Cannondale H300 and then a Novara Big Buzz. Quite different bikes but not to be mistaken for anything but hybrids.
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Originally Posted by Retro Grouch
It's what happens if you let a road bike and a mountain bike stay in the same room.
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