Originally Posted by
Bianchigirll
I would try a standard clip on aero bar with a tall technomic stem. I athough personally I have an issue with the proliferation of aero bars for recreational riders. I feel they are dangerous in traffic.
Anyway a tall stem will get your a pretty upright ridining position and standard drop bars will give tou ample hand positions.
I use some rather tall stems but a technomic can get you higher and closer.
After getting a professional fit, I've got my road bike set up with an adjustable 90 mm stem, set at about 130 degrees, so my bars are a little higher than the ones in your pics. I took a 2 hour ride on that bike this morning, and did feel some discomfort towards the end, but it was tolerable.
I've got some kludgy solutions on my other bikes - I just finished mounting trekking bars on a Bianchi Hybrid, with long, L-shaped bar ends mounted upright to give a relief position for longer rides. That was the bike that was the real problem, and the trekking bars, which shorten the reach by about 2.5 inches, may be enough of an improvement so that I can take the bar-ends off. My other bikes have solutions involving MTB bars and bar ends.
I just thought there should be a style of handlebar that solved the problem without having to cobble something together...