>>1515487>Hybrid bikes are just abominations that stem from people not wanting anything specific to a certain activity.Hybrid bikes are a huge spectrum of which many are produced with an everything bike that does nothing. A good hybrid design still goes towards one side or another, touring/trekking or road/fitness/gravel. The problem are the usual thin frame with knobbly tires that breaks or sinks the moment its stupid owner brings it onto a forest road.
Let's be hones, mountain bikes are specific and needs to be specifically MTB geometry to be able to take the bumps and jumps, even for XC.
I myself own a touring/trekking oriented hybrid and a fitness hybrid, both are excellent bikes on their own and both can do longer tours on pothole ridden bumpy countryside roads and gravel and dirt roads, the fitness a bit more than the trekking one on the latter.
Don't bring the 90% normies into a bike discussion because they themselves don't bring much to the cycling world.
