Originally Posted by MikeyMK

I've never got on with them. They were all the rage in the late '80s and I tried a few, but the hand position was all wrong. My Merlin came with bullhorns and I couldn't cope.

With flat bars your hands are in the wrong position because they're just too straight. Maybe you can get more straight poles on a pallet but it does nothing for the riding position.

I held my hands out in loose fists with a handlegrip in each, and looked at them. I closed my eyes and let my hands move to the most comfortable position. When i opened my eyes, the grips were in a position none of my bikes had ever had...

What I needed, apparently, were moustache bars, angled slightly downwards. I bough an Ergotec Space Bugle and i absolutely love it, i've used it on my last three dailys - if you like your bars low, you can get the grips lower than your top tube by mounting them upside down. And you can cut a gap out the middle of the curve for an inboard pair.