Bar odd/specific stuff like track bikes, tandems, what is the least likely to be owned by an stwer?

Seems to me to be a hybrid – the bike for the non cyclist.

Is that a cake?

I’d wager there are more hybrids used by STWers than you might think. Commuter bikes, etc.

I’d say recumbents are the rarest! Are there any STWers with a ‘bent?

Road?

Road?

Probably more of them than MTBs…

My guess is 20in trials bikes.

Mods/STW folk, poll?

CaptainFlashheart – Member
I’d wager there are more hybrids used by STWers than you might think. Commuter bikes, etc.

I’d say recumbents are the rarest! Are there any STWers with a ‘bent?

bentcooper

I think we’d need to define “mainstream” – easy to think of odd bikes like ‘bents, trials, etc that are too stupid obscure

full on dh bikes…..utter uselessness

27.5er

One of my bikes is a hybrid, its a comfy ride so its going to become my tourer.

There must be loads of hybrids on here? They call them cross bikes, MTB-commuters or road-rats but they are essentially hybrids.

I’ve had a hybrid (Marin Point Reyes) for the last 12 years possibly? Used it for commuting (when I had a work to go to) and touring about (including Bealach na Ba challenge). Latterly used it for shopping, deliveries, and with a bob-a-like was excellent for fetching firewood / recycling.

Now passed on to my lad, who’s used it for general jaunts, doing cycling as part of Duke of Edinburgh, he loves it as a flat barred road-ready bike..

Proper town bike? But then I bought it from another STWer so maybe too common?

MrSmith – Member
There must be loads of hybrids on here? They call them cross bikes, MTB-commuters or road-rats but they are essentially hybrids.

No, they are not. Go and wash your mouth out with soap and water.

What MrSmith said. Hybrid is basically a bike thats not as good on road as a road bike and not as good off-road as a mountain bike. AKA, a cross bike.

And I’d like to bet the least owned bike is a beach styleee cruiser. Singlespeed, roller brake, flat pedals etc. I have one.

My commuter is not a poverty-cool speed machine thrown together from old parts. It’s an entry level off-the-peg hybrid (ok so it’s been upgraded for speed!).

It’s fast and very effective in the city though 🙂 Better than a road bike because the brakes are way better, it can cope with off-road, potholes, kerbs and rough roads much more easily on 38c tyres, and it has full rack bosses so it can carry loads of stuff.

Penny farthing would be my guess…

I’d wager it’d be a Kronan/Dutch bike.

Not sure what I’d wager though.

My hybrid is a Boardman jobbie, 700cX28, hydro discs, 50/36 – 11-32 gears and flat bars. Fast enough to get along, comfy enough for all day.
Just need some pannier kit now..

rode bikes in short supply

folder?

leccy bike?

trike?

Errr. There is a KMX recumbent trike in the TiRed fleet. Rarest bike? Pedersen would be my guess. Or an ordinary. Oh how bad do I want one of each. And a Baron lowracer.

If it’s a bike, it’s great as far as I am concerned. I thought hybrid = rigid 29er, no?

Full-sus MTB tandem!

The missus and I have a Ventana which we love.

No, they are not

I think they are. I see them (fake-hybrids) as pandering to MTB sensibilities, bikes for those who would be better off with a hybrid as road and cross angles are too steep, brakes ineffective and tyres just too skinny but don’t want to be seen buying a hybrid.
What better to choose than a rigid slack angled hard tail with disk brakes with handlebars nice and high? If it comes from a MTB manufacturer they trust even better. 🙄

Great, now I know what bike to buy, thanks for telling me what to think 😀

STW’s least popular bike = Whatever everyone was riding 12 months ago. Probably 26″ steel inbreds.

“What to think” ?
It was an opinion not the Ten Commandments of cycle buying 😕
You think what you like, thankfully our forefathers fought and won against an oppressive regime to allow you that liberty.

Gt Fury. Etc.

Edit: Oi, Paul, I just bought a 26 Inbred :d

Edit: Oi, Paul, I just bought a 26 Inbred :d

Call the fashion police 🙂

I even got the Yorkshire Rose on special offer to remind people how ultra niche I am.

I’m so hip, i’ll remind everyone that “my other bike is ALSO an Inbred”.

Seems to me to be a hybrid

Plenty of people on here have 29ers….

Phat bikes IMHO yet to see one on a trail yet!

cynic-al – Member

Bar odd/specific stuff like track bikes, tandems, what is the least likely to be owned by an stwer?

Seems to me to be a hybrid – the bike for the non cyclist.

‘I am a cyclist, whilst you merely ride a bike’.

You sir are to cycling what DezB is to music. 🙂

I’ve got a hybrid. I managed to squeeze 1.95 29er tyres on it. It’s my hack bike.

To my mind what defines a bike as a hybrid is the sit up and beg geometry on a bike designed for comfortable urban riding. They’re often cheap and heavy with components a cycling enthusiast wouldn’t choose due to weight, servicing, or performance reasons.

Therefore I wouldn’t class your flatbar racers, sportives, tourers, or commuter built variants such as cross bikes or parts bin bikes as hybrids because they all seek to avoid the worst characteristics of a hybrid, especially the geometry.

I bet I am not the only one with a trike. Uprights of course.
2 actually.
How about prewar bikes? Anyone else?
anyone have a Sunbeam trike?

To my mind what defines a bike as a hybrid is the sit up and beg geometry on a bike designed for comfortable urban riding

Look up Kona PhD

Someone on the commute asked me about my Peregrine at the lights a while ago. I might have pulled a face when he said “oh, so it’s like a hybrid, then?”

He’s got a point, though.

Molgrips, it’s a flatbar racer with some 105, which is a commuter option for people who don’t want a hybrid. My post already explained why I don’t personally consider that a hybrid.

Stick a threaded stem extender on there with a massive rise, a crappy suspension fork and seat post, massive saddle, a bottom level mtb/tourer chainset, mega range cassette, etc, and that’s the kind of BSO I’d consider a hybrid.

Sorry, flat barred road bike = hybrid.