>>2000052>At the store 90% of the bikes had the handles visibly lower than the seat and felt pretty uncomfortable to even sit on.Yeah normally when you test ride they lower the seatpost to the actual height or something close, but to maximize sex appeal they pull the seatpost all the way out for display. You can't ride the bike the way they display it because if your legs were that long you'd need a different frame
>but the bikes that had the lower seat and higher handlebars felt a lot more comfortable on my backYou were probably riding a bike where the horizontal distance between the bars and the saddle (the reach) was too much for you
>Do Dutch bikes suffer from comfort and control issues because all the weight is onto the seat?Kind of but they also have large, cumbersome underinflated tires to soak up some of the road shock
>I don't want to sound mean but how exactly do they suck? The gearing is useless unless you only ride on perfectly flat land, they are overbuilt because they're designed to be abused and used for idiot stunts like carrying adult size children standing on the seatstays (translation: they are ridiculously heavy), the brakes suck, also they can't be carried up a stairs due to no top tube
>I'm guessing the "crank" is the 3x gears on the part that you paddle? Yes, most hybrid customers don't know how to use the front derailleur even if it's working correctly, and it usually gets messed up quickly because people try to shift when the bike is standing still or shift under heavy load or other bad practices, and FDs are not really the easiest thing for a noob to adjust, even for mountains it's a silly choice of gearing because the hybrid customer is not going to be spinning out down the other end in 48-11, which gets you awfully close to 40mph at max cadence, they only do that because consoomers think "moar gears = moar better", yes I said dutch bike gearing is useless (shit range) but going overboard in the opposite direction is just as dumb
