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the_meat
My impression was that the first factory build bikes like that appeared on the market in late 80s. You can see a “hybrid” style steel bikes with canti bosses and 700c wheels in the catalogues of Koga Miyata, Kuwahara. I’d pay a special tribute to a Koga-Miyata 1988 bike called TieBreaker. Aside from two other flat handlebar 700C wheeled bikes that could pass as a early hybrids, this one was designed to carry you and your surfing board from/to you beach house. Loving the idea!