Originally Posted by
Lemon_grass
Hello-- so after riding around with my new gravel bike and after this weekends first race with real sketchy and steep downhill decents, I've decided to swap out my drops for risers for more control (I have much better handling with flats/risers in general than with drops to begin with in gravel/mud).
I don't mind if you convert to flat bars, but maybe give it a bit more time since the bike is new. Your bars are flared, right? How wide are they? Salsa makes some mountain drops in various widths. I used to run their widest Woodchipper bar on my Fargo, and the wide bars helped me with control.