Originally Posted by
qmsdc15
I'd try the Ergon grips with integrated bar ends, the longest ones. That should give you a couple additional hand positions.
Definitely. But the OP should know that this won't help significantly with riding into the wind.
Oh - another thing he should know is that a drop conversion would be complicated by the disk brakes his bike is fitted; the pull is wrong for standard drop bar levers. There are special models that do work and they're cheap, but they don't have the integrated gear levers of the expensive ones. There are various solutions, the simplest being to fit "bar end shifters".