Having ridden a fixed gear bike once, my notion of handlebar choice for them may be wrong. It seems that if the bike is based on a sporting road frame and ridden like one, it needs sporting drop bars.


I've seen so many pics of fixed gear bikes with straight bars, moustache bars, bull horn and riser bars, I thought there was some reason for different bars for fixed gear bikes. Now I'm thinking that the main reason for these types of bars is that they are suitable for town bikes, which fixed gear is also suited for.


It seems that if I ride my fixed bike on similar roads and in a similar way as my geared road bikes, I need similar bars. My bull horn or matador bars may coming of my fixed bike for drop bars.


Or is there some reason why fixed bikes are more suitable to an upright riding style?