Originally Posted by
Gresp15C
Horses for courses. I've never been able to ride comfortably in the drops, and flat bars pound the hell out of my wrists. I can ride all day on north road style bars, and they are now on all of my bikes. They provide sufficient control for urban streets and rails-to-trails that are typically crushed limestone or hard clay around here. Swept bars have my hands at or behind the centerline of the head tube.
Naturally they'd be out of place in the peloton, but a lot of things about me would be out of place in the peloton.
North road bars are on all my bikes too, all upside down. Touring bike, gravel bike, 29+ no suspension mountain bike, and road bike which I do ride in pelotons.
Drop bars have all those hand positions and none of them are as good as a north road bar.