Originally Posted by badger1

Well there ... you see? Had you heeded the warnings that abound on this board you might have been saved from yourself and not made such an expensive mistake.

I, for example, have been riding flat-bar bicycles since 2002. As a result, my arms have morphologically adapted themselves so as to make it impossible for me now to switch to the far, far superior drop-bar type of bicycle. Sad, I know, but there it is ... I've no one to blame but myself.