I have over 10,000 miles on my Paramount Series 5, and more recently my Trek Crossrip. As I have aged, I have come to truly hate riding a bike with drop bars. Last year I purchased a Trek FX6s. That's a Domane carbon road bike frame with 700x25c tires and flat bars. It is night and day for comfort for me. I don't ride for speed these days...I ride for exercise and expect to be comfortable. Hybrid bikes is where it's at for me. I understand the concept of flat bars having fewer hand positions, but on the drop bars, all of the hand positions were bad.