Originally Posted by seely

Care to elaborate? You make several claims with no reasoning to back it up... I've used drop bars on an MTB before and can't say I've found any negatives to them.
Several claims? I only made one claim about drop bars. If they are so great, why doesn't everyone use them? Why don't we have them on motocross bikes? Because you don't have the strength advantage and manoverability of straight bars. Don't even get started on DH for this.