Originally Posted by
Rowan
I find it interesting that people use the drops so much on descents, when they really don't really need to be on the drops, yet are happy to expend more energy than is needed on flat roads by riding on the hoods.
And before you drop a bundle on me, I am as guilty as the rest of you. But I am trying to change that on my road bike (as opposed to touring bike).
Only time I do the drops in the descent is when it's so hairy that I really have to have full trigger action on the brakes - I have small hands and doing it from the drops gives slightly better leverage than from the hoods. Otherwise, I'm all about aero when hi yield, which means drops as often as possible on flats, and on fast straight descents.