Originally Posted by fietsbob

Euro popular, Figure 8 bend Trekking bars will let you keep all your existing brake levers and shifters,
drops require them to all be different.. so will be $ Expensive $, lots more than just the bars and tape..
You also skip costs to add cables, housing, labor.


then you get a nearer and farther reach rather than up/down..

the far reach and a little elbow bend will get you the same ducking down, into a head wind, posture..






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