Hybrids / bad mountain bikes / insta wagons / bling rigids - please, i beg, no 700c 😩

The rear rack is just for the child seat but when I'm out and about sans child I whip it off to save a miniscule amount of weight.

Just awaiting mudguards a more chonk tyres

Ooh I spot some triples

Maj is working with a designer to print "kill the triple" stickers.

So down for these, let’s make it a reality

Chonk is a great word.

Something about that Straggler, despite the double...

i'll be honest lads... i'm loving these bikes... every single one of em

Nothing to be ashamed of

Telescopic seatpost?

My Marin too ratty for this topic?

Amey's / my old Trek might fit in here? Excuse the triple.

Gravelkings
Touring bars
1x
Brooks

Could be in the running for sure! Great looking bike

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that was a good bike, i had 650b grand bois tyres on that with paul brakes and levers, I will find a pic

also my partners ECR, need to find a pic

I call on the house to pass judgement on this proto-wanker from the last decade

That Cherry Bomb is extremely nice.

i'm a large tyre factionalist, to me this bike does not pass our entry requirements, although may pass the vibe check

Personally the other underrepresented party i can see making a comeback, of which this bike is part of, is the "eccentric touring bike"

lots of stack
30-40c tyres
mudguards
racks
lots of spacers
things bolted/ clamped on everywhere
not a step through but looks stepthrough
looks like its blue lugg but it's just old and outdated

i have not however got enough pictures to set the mood

Those bottle cages look long enough for a long thing.

Personally I would put this in functional bikes, it looks like a rolling incarnation of a retired engineers DIY workbench. Everything dialled in just to their own eccentric needs/wants.

Studded tyres seems like a weird flex though.

Maj and I's friend who hates cyclists now owns that bike and responds with derision to people who clock the sticker job.

It came from the functional thread, many many moons ago. I think that build is north of 10 years ago. Hence me refering to it as a proto-wanker, it was built at a time when what we think of as the 'modern standard' for the wanker hybrid was still but the loose jelly of life clinging to the rocks of a distant shore.

The evolving wanker bike definition on here is surely post-modern?

the evolving wanker bike definition on here is 'Surly: post-modern'

FTFY

‘Eccentric touring bikes’ is a potential goldmine of a thread. My lht is a towering pile of hideousness comparable to that one upthread.
After many many handlebar swaps over the years I’ve settle on cruiser bars with tt clip ons...

I always like the ‘weird local bloke bike’- prob does more miles than anyone else, completely random selection of parts, almost always something made out of meccano, still rocking lights running on D cell batteries, one ancient karrimor pannier etc.
Preferably teamed with an og TuffTop helmet and reflective sash...