Bridgestone XO-3

The Bridgestone XO-3 was one of the XO series of fast, sporty urban street bicycles that Grant Petersen designed for Bridgestone's American bicycle division. A Forbes review dated 9 May 1994 priced it at around $600 and called it a hybrid that came close to breaking the rule that hybrids should not go off-road, because it had strong 26 inch mountain-bike rims rather than the large wheels of road bikes and hybrids, came with 1.1 inch slick tires for street riding, and could be refitted with 1.9 inch mountain-bike tires. Its aluminum multiple-position mustache handlebars were like those of paperboy bikes, letting the rider vary the position of the upper body. Forbes judged that no other hybrid on the market was more versatile. Sheldon Brown's archive says most of the XO series used mustache handlebars and slick medium-width tires.