Originally Posted by hls811

I just picked up my first hybrid/road bike last week - I bought a Trek 7.2FX (Livestrong edition) - I really like the bike. I wanted to get more into road riding but having an 8 year old son I couldn't give up the ability to go off-road as there are some parks and dirt tracks we like to ride on occasion together. My thinking was that I'd use this bike for a year or 2 and save up to get a dedicated road bike. Well, after about 40 miles on the 7.2 I'm wondering if I should have just gone the full road bike route, specifically because of some of the hills in my area. I also like the riding position with flat bars better than drop bars and having the brakes accessible that way as opposed to being lower on the drop bars. Drop bars are obviously better for the hills though and while I do have bar ends which I really like and they do help - I believe I saw on a forum that someone had drop bar attachments for flat bars - Does anyone have experience with them? Is there any version of this which incorporates an upper bar end as well as drop bars.