Combining the aspects of both road and mountain bikes, hybrid bikes stand towards the top of the pile when considering blending functionality with comfort and ease.
Hybrid bike generally offer a selection of features from their mountain bike cousins to help boost on and off road comfort including:
Disc Brakes – Offering more reliable stopping power than traditional V-brakes for no more most middle priced hybrid bikes feature disc brakes to grant the stopping power essential for the city & the ride home.
Suspension Forks – Some hybrid bikes include general performance forks, commonly of lower quality than mountain bikes but nonetheless offering superb ride comfort at the fraction of your price. Often hybrid bikes are fitted with rigid forks which will offer more speed as suspension is rarely necessary for the standard hybrid environment.
Gears – Although there are a wide range of hybrids which use road bike gears most hybrids use the more durable mountain bike gears for their increased resistancy to long distance riding combined with smaller gear ratios to tackle acceleration and hills, the two most common encountered riding conditions.
Handlebars – All hybrid bikes feature flat mtb handlebars for a more relaxed, up riding position for long distance comfort usually forgotten for pure speed on road bikes.
The rest of the bike is made up of traditional road bike features including some of the best high performance components including:
Wheels – Road wheels are usually frequently lighter that has a more appropriate capacity to weight ratio allowing the hybrid bikes to relocate through traffic without any difficulty, although offering less durability on off-road conditions road wheels will be the perfect option for commuting.
Tyres – All hybrid bikes feature skinny road ready tyres blended with a grippy tread which offers amazing variety of speed without hampering grip in wet or slighlty muddy conditions to give the better of all possible worlds.
Geometry – Hybrid bike’s geometries are frequently road focus mixed with mtb comfort features to make a unique amount of frame comfort and ease & control in urban riding conditions.
All in all hybrid bikes offer some of the most comfortable and fastest features from all kinds of bikes to create a unique riding expereince perfect for commuting both sport and long distances in the shortest possible times in the most comfortable riding position which is why they are love the world over.
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