Well, I guess I am not the norm. My DH and I started out years and years ago on Mountain bikes. We rode on the road, we rode off road, and where ever we wanted to go on them. We pulled (at the time) our 3 yr old in a trailor until he got older and too heavy. Then we quit riding, because we couldn't pull him and between work and not being able to take the child and him not being able to keep up himself, well we just quit.
Fast forward to about 2 months ago. I got my good ole mountain bike back out and started riding again. DS is old enough to leave alone for an hour or so while I ride, or I ride while he is in school. I ride anwhere from 10 to 15 miles on my daily rides and DH and I try to take a long ride of 20 miles or more once a week. We are trying to build up endurance so we can ride the 50mile distance in the Waco ride the end of this month.

After reading all these post I feel like we are abnormal. We are talking about getting Hybrid's now. Our thinking is that the hybrid will be better for the road than the mountain bikes are but we won't have the headaches of flats and such so much as you do on a road bike.
Are we doing the wrong thing, going from mountain bikes to hybrids?

I'm kind of confused now. I get the impression from the posts that the hybirds are slow, heavy and hard to ride. Is that the case?