Originally Posted by
fuzz2050
I'm going to speak out against moustache bars for mountain bike conversions; they tend to be road sized so you need to do a full component swap, and they have a lot of reach, so they can be very uncomfortable on a mountain bike with an already long top tube.
I actually like dirt drops on road, but because they have to be set up so high, you don't really get the aero thing going. I'll disagree with Strik about the hoods though. At least with some bars and setups it's possible to get the hoods usable and in fact quite comfortable. I used an Origin8 Gary bar, which is much shallower and has a shorter drop than the Woodchipper, and the hoods were perfectly usable for me.
I agree too. Here are three pics of my 91 Bridgestone MB 4. The first is stock when I got it of Craigslist. The second is the mustache bars on a grocery run. You can see that even with a new, really long stem, there was way too much drop and the read for the brakes was very long. Some people suggested I flip the bars upside down but that would mean that your wrists are bent IN instead of OUT when you ride the brakes. Annoying as hell but it could be particular to this set of bars (nashbar). In the end I just swap them out for road bars and the bike is really comfortable now!
