Originally Posted by
DrIsotope
I've said before-- I see guys out on the river trail doing 50+ miles on flat bars with ergo grips-- and I'm like, damn. I don't know how they do it. Seriously-- I feel like I change hand positions 20 times an hour. I just put on aerobars two weeks ago, so I have even more hand positions.
I've gone as far as 168 miles in a day on my hybrid, but I wouldn't try it without bar ends. No question that for long distances, riding the hoods on a drop bar is much easier for me than flat bars even with bar ends. I just started riding a drop bar bike for the first time in about 30 years, and my hands are way better after a century on that by far.