Originally Posted by
Dean7
The ergonomics on modern hardware seems to be set up to have the hoods pointing upward. I think it feels great. Also, for climbing you might want your hands in the drops... easier to get a death grip on your drop bar than hoods.
I can't climb nearly as well in the drops, perhaps due to years of conditioning to use the hoods - the positioning is all wrong for me. Same with flat bars. I'm a bar-end kind of a guy for flat bar bikes and mountain bikes (I'd never put a riser bar on my ATB).