Thanks guys! Very helpful. I'm back to biking after many years away and am baffled by some of the newer tech stuff, like fat handlebars and so on. Sometimes just asking questions like this saves a lot of googling.

YoKev, thanks for your thoughts about off-road use. This bike is a commuter with street tires and not much of a real MTB these days.

I figure some different bars would be fun and relatively inexpensive to try. I've thought of doing a drop bar conversion but am not ready to spend that much money yet.