Hybrids, they don't exist!

[GrasB]

I think the term 'hybrid' is over used especially for 700c wheeled utility, leisure & city bikes. However there are some bikes that don't simply fit into normal categories & for those Hybrid is a useful encompassing term.

 

[Mr Celine]

I've still got the hybrid I bought in 1994, a Raleigh Pioneer Trail. Last time I looked in the bike shed it still existed. It's definately a hybrid because Raleigh said it was.

 

[snorri]

When we're at it let's get rid of that new fangled term "road bikes" and revert to the original name for that style of machine.

 

[HLaB]

When we're at it let's get rid of that new fangled term "road bikes" and revert to the original name for that style of machine.

Penny farthing ?

 

[P.H]

It's a meaningless term not because they don't exist, but because the vast majority of current bikes are a hybrid of one sort or another. The increasingly popular hybrid of a cross bike and tourer, the race bikes with tourer geometry, the race bikes with flat handlebars, the tourer with MTB gearing...

 

[Norm]

It's a meaningless term not because they don't exist, but because the vast majority of current bikes are a hybrid of one sort or another. The increasingly popular hybrid of a cross bike and tourer, the race bikes with tourer geometry, the race bikes with flat handlebars, the tourer with MTB gearing...

This!

It's not because they don't exist but the opposite, it is used for so many different styles of bikes that the word tells you nothing about the bike it is used to describe.

 

[tyred]

When we're at it let's get rid of that new fangled term "road bikes" and revert to the original name for that style of machine.

Indeed. Any bike can be used on the road so by definition, all bikes are road bikes.

 

[youngoldbloke]

When we're at it let's get rid of that new fangled term "road bikes" and revert to the original name for that style of machine.

What is that?

 

[mickle]

What is that?

A ten speed.

 

[youngoldbloke]

Has anyone mentioned 'Fitness Bikes' yet - as in 'Trek Fitness 7.3FX'?

 

[youngoldbloke]

A ten speed.

- not many of them around then ...... assuming you mean a double with a 5 speed block, that is, and not a 10 speed cassette!

 

[mickle]

I remember one of the big US indoor/stationary-bike/gym equipment companies launching a range of bicycles in the 90s, cept they weren't bikes. They were 'outdoor trainers'.

 

[MacB]

I remember one of the big US indoor/stationary-bike/gym equipment companies launching a range of bicycles in the 90s, cept they weren't bikes. They were 'outdoor trainers'.

I like that one

 

[snorri]

What is that?

A racer.

 

[youngoldbloke]

A racer.

but a lot of road bikes are not for racing - you use a 'race bike' for that - but what about sportive bikes, and audax bikes, and CX bikes? They have drop bars too - and TT bikes, which don't have dropped bars?