Best women's hybrid bikes 2025: practical, comfortable and efficient bikes for every occasion

Our top-rated women's hybrid bikes with tips on how to choose the ideal bicycle for mixed-terrain riding

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Capable of tackling tarmac or heading off-piste, the best women's hybrid bikes are precisely that: a hybrid mix of both road and off-road bikes. They offer the greater efficiency of their road-going cousins with the ruggedness of gravel and mountain bikes.

It's worth mentioning straight out the gate that not everyone needs or wants a women’s specific bike, and cycling brands have even flip-flopped over the years in their manufacturing of them. Just because a bike isn’t labelled as a 'women’s bike’ doesn’t mean it can’t be ridden by a woman. We've even got a whole page on 'Is ‘women’s specific geometry’ still relevant?'. However, there are certainly benefits to be gained from purchasing a women’s specific bike. It's likely to feature one of the best women's saddles, shorter cranks or narrower handlebars for more comfortable riding.

Hannah Bussey

Hannah is Cycling Weekly’s longest-serving tech writer, having started with the magazine back in 2011. She has covered all things technical for both print and digital over multiple seasons representing CW at spring Classics, and Grand Tours and all races in between.

Hannah was a successful road and track racer herself, competing in UCI races all over Europe as well as in China, Pakistan and New Zealand.

For fun, she's ridden LEJOG unaided, a lap of Majorca in a day, won a 24-hour mountain bike race and tackled famous mountain passes in the French Alps, Pyrenees, Dolomites and Himalayas. 

She lives just outside the Peak District National Park near Manchester UK with her partner, daughter and a small but beautifully formed bike collection. 

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