No, its an old MTB, you remember back in the day when we didnt have suspension, fat tyres, disc brakes, wide bars, slack head angles and all used a triple. Well, its one of those really.
No. Mountain biking wasn’t invented until some Americans started riding their hybrids off-road.
But those bikes don’t look anything like my MTBs so they can’t be the same. Anyway, I was riding around the cliffs on my 10sp Raleigh Pursuit back in the early 80s before I’d ever heard of Repack so I must have invented MTBing around here. 😀
I own a rigid MTB is that a flat bar gravel plus? Are the Roadrat and Badboy flat bar gravel, hybrid or leisure bikes? So many questions that I didn’t know I needed the answers to until I foolishly opened this thread.
It was the replacement for the 1950s Windrush which was specifically aimed at the RSF type rider. For example, the pump pegs were moved from the top tube to the down tube so that the bike could be more comfortably carried on a shoulder.
You could argue that the proto-gravel bikes were the like of the Windrush and the Rudge Pathfinder etc.
I have a Windrush, and it is a very good gravel bike. What it lacks is a modern disk brake. That’s the only improvement I could think of for it.
Here it is at Loch Einich, a reasonable test of a gravel bike IMO.
I’m pretty sure the STW collective could produce a variety of pics of bikes ridden in wrong places that would have the pedants frothing over their semantic porridge…..
it’s only a hybrid if your brain can only hold two types of bike in it, and so anything in between is weird and inbetween – a hybrid.
Or not if your brain can imagine many types of bike; combinations of frames, head angles, suppleness, suspension, ergonomics, bar designs and widths, tyre width and designs, purpose, weight, toughness and looks, to suit many types of riding, control, distances, terrain and speeds.