Originally Posted by
fuzz2050
You'd be surprised. I'm a fan of drop bars for mountain bikes, and I've found that hitting bumps actually pushes the bar more firmly into your hands. It does call for padding though.
do you have front suspension? I just would think that after the fork travels down and hits it bottom then springs back up my body is still in the drop motion and my hands might slip off or im still holding on but my body dosent push up as fast as the fork and my face would get hit by the bar