I suffer from neck & back pain also and have been trying to find a more comfortable bike to ride as I am have trouble riding my road bikes any great distance, I went with a MTB set up with riser bars & street tires and it was better but not perfect. I then built a hybrid for my neighbor with a set of cruiser bars & seat and I must say that I really like it & I am considering doing it to one of my road bikes to see how I like it. I think with a set of those VO touring bars or something along the same lines wouldn't look bad either as long as I could get them wide enough to fit me. I have a narrow set of Nitto North Roads that I removed from a Cdale ST500 I have if anybody wants to try this, I can't use them.

Glenn



Nitto North Road bars on a Cdale ST500



I built this for a friend that wanted to be upright on his old Fuji road bike, the bars curve towards you.