Originally Posted by
mechanicalron
They dont look fun to use and well, i hate to say it but,,, they are just flat out UGLY as heck and are they safe outside a time trial? lets see some photos to win me over but you should use the sort of brake levers they make for them to be safe on the road.
While they may be ugly as sin, there really isn't anything inherently dangerous about them. There isn't much call for brake levers, after all, most hand positions on drop bars don't have ready access to brakes.
Anyway, the handling is so wonky on aero-bars that you only ever really use them on long straight sections. If there is any lack of uniformity on the road (such that might require braking) I tend to swap hand positions naturally.