Hybrid Sports Bicycle

Hybrid Sports Bicycle

 The prototypes unveiled at auto shows are often the stuff of fantasy  almost like high-gloss spaceships with tires leaning more toward art than form of transport. In most cases, there's no real intention to manufacture. 

A few of those prototypes, however, are intended for actual street use. One such vehicle, called the Hybrid Sports Bike, or HSB, received a rather warm reception at the 2012 L.A. Auto Show -- not bad for a first-of-its-kind hybrid bike created by a then-grad student over the course of a year .

Hybrid sports bikes blend the efficiency of a road bike with the stability and control of a flat bar mountain bike. Sporty hybrids make ideal commuter bikes, with many priced under Rs75,000 for Cycle to Work schemes. Use a sports hybrid bike for recreational riding on roads, pavements and cycle paths. 

Some hybrid sports bikes such as the Giant Roam and Specialized Crosstrail have front suspension forks with 63mm travel for taking on light off-roading on canal towpaths and fire roads. 

 Hybrid bicycles are old news. As we know them, they combine two forms of power: human-generated, in the form of pedaling, and a second, non-human energy-generator, either electric or gas.

Gas-hybrid bicycles came first, and were simply traditional bikes modified with an add-on kit. Cyclists have long been able to buy wee internal-combustion engines to soup-up their two-wheelers, essentially creating gas-powered motorcycles with working pedals. Not the safest way to travel, perhaps, but a noteworthy upgrade. The engine can be turned off and on to accommodate different power needs, and the whole setup is illegal throughout much of the United States.The modified gas-bike is a difficult vehicle to classify when it comes to traffic laws.