Originally Posted by
pjthomas
You can also say a premium hydrid is an oxymoron; no DuraAce/XTR equipped hybrids that I know of.
Slightly off-topic, a buddy of mine has a few-years-old KHS Ultrasport 3.0, which is about as hybrid as a hybrid can get. It of course came with a hodge-podge of Altus and Acera, as one would expect. My buddy worked at a sporting goods distributor at the time, and picked up basically an entire group on clearance from Shimano-- all 10 speed SAINT. Converted it to 1x10, swapped out the boat-anchor Suntour fork for a mid-level RockShox, stem/bar/seatpost are all Shimano PRO Tharsis carbon. Bike gets a whole lot of double and triple takes. It's pretty absurd.