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Willow said:What we need is a flow chart which leads us newbies to the right bike for our needs. All these words are just too much.
CTC did this last year and published it in their "Cycle" magazine. The issue is that Hybrid covers almost everything from a non-sus MTB with big fat tyres to Flat-barred road-bikes. There's an awful lot of subtleties in-between, wheel size, tyre widths, brake-type, clearances etc. City bikes, are they a sub-set of hybrid or are they a seperate genus? Maybe City bikes are related to the good old Dutch "Station-bike" or Dutch "Tourer".
I agree that tourers make very good everyday bikes for everyday people, but there are so few about, however, the City bike is a damn good second choice sharing many of the tourers virtues. Such bikes do everything in Holland/N. Europe.