I like the drop bar conversion fine but I would do a conversion a little differently now.

I picked up a different stumpjumper (a '92 I think) that I plan to converting to drops and so I'll turn the '88 back to flat bars. Flat bars give you good control for a commuter which is what I use the '88 stumpjumper for.

The early 90s stumpjumper is, I think, a little nicer bike. It has a prestige main triangle and it doesn't have a u brake. Also I'm going to do the conversion a little differently this time with an origin 8 bar and get the bars a little higher which is what you are supposed to do.

This is a good discussion about doing a drop bar conversion on an MTB.

https://g-tedproductions.blogspot.co...s-updated.html

This is the early 90s stumpy I picked up as I found it