Originally Posted by
pierce
if you DO have drop bars and find yourself always riding on the tops, then get a taller stem so the bottoms are not as far a reach....
As I recall one of the first major mods I did to the Raleigh hybrid was change out the suspension fork for a rigid steel one and changed the stem to a ritchey that had a very large range of adjustment and put a set of flat bars on there to replace the riser bars, I think over all after the mods it was pretty close to the way most flat bar road bikes are set up, maybe the bars were just a bit higher, but pretty close. One thing I really did like about the fuji raod bike with the drops was the 3 or 4 positions I could have my hands on. As I remember I usually road on the brake hoods or by stem. I very rarely rode in the drops as I remember. Which is one reason I was thinking af a bike with trekking bars.