Originally Posted by
joejeweler
I don't "need" drop bars for several hand positions, as my bike rides are short 5-10 mile trips for the most part. Sometimes twice that throughout the day, but rarely more. As Grant Peterson (at Rivendell) likes to say,.....i am an "un-racer". To have any drop bars used where my 56 year old body is uncomfortably bent over to decrease wind resistance is not part of my plan. I do my own thing, and could care less about the current fads or strict interpretation of a specific term,....as in "hybrid bicycle".
I'm in my 20s, I feel more comfortable with some drop between the bar and the saddle, but I still prefer flatbars + bar ends.
I'm tired of this "drop bars are for crouching and risers are for upright" business. You can have drop bars up really high, like Mr. Petersen, and you can have riser bars really low, like an XC racer.