Originally Posted by
rustystrings61
I freely admit to being hopelessly retro in my outlook, but I would strongly suggest that if you go with dropped bars, seriously explore the classical drop-bar position recommended for decades for non-racing cyclists - top of the bars roughly level with the saddle height, the distance between the nose of the saddle and the back of the bar tops roughly the length of the forearm and hand with fingers extended.
This little blurb basically sounds amazing to me! I like that simplistic approach, at least as a starting point. One school of though that appeals to me is putting on compact drops with a pretty highly angled stem, like +17. Riding the hoods becomes closer to an upright position, and actually being in the drops ends up feeling like what most people ride as the flat part of the bars. Anyone do anything similar to this?