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that is all. The concept of buying a hybrid bike compared to the drop-bar/flat-bar conversion are considerably different. The aspiration of a flat-bar rider is to have the capability of a road bike but with a more upright, comfortable riding position. Often, this is due to injury, age or other requirements. The aspiration of a hybrid rider is to have a true hybrid capability for track and pathway use.
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Keep separate. Hybrid is used to describe a mountain bike design adapted for use on-road. This style will, hopefully, disappear. Flat-bar road bikes or commuter bikes are similar, but flat-bar road bikes are usually pared-down. Commuters often have rather more peripherals, or at least the capacity to
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without coming here to say "what do you asses know about bikes" to some editors, flat bar road bikes and those MTB derivatives (called an urban (because I ride one)) as mentioned by some editors belong to the hybrid group of bikes, even some bike shops say that as well, this is why in some shops,
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