Originally Posted by cale

I don't like bars with sweep and without bar ends my hands cramp too quickly. I need the added positions they provide. I wish I could have been more inventive but the townie bars are too difficult to climb with on our hills.

Anyway, a lot of choices were for purely practical reasons. At heart I'm a road rider and I finally found the stretch* I needed by going 20mm longer on the stem, dropping 10mm in stack height, and flat bars with minimal sweep.