Originally Posted by
genejockey
As it happens, switching to Highway Ones coincided with my wanting to shorten my reach just a bit. I thought it was just getting older, but I realized that for years, riding on the hoods had been a bit of a stretch, and I'd often scooch my hands back an inch or so and ride on the ramps instead. I thought about raising the bars, too, as I age, but it turned out that with 1-2cm less reach, the drop wasn't a problem.
30mm is a lot, though. What bars were you running before?
I'm not as well versed in bars as some guys, but I am pretty sure they were Cinelli bars with the traditional big sweeping drops. I am pretty sure that I am more flexible on what works for me than some others. All I know is that when I switched in the Soma bars, the bike's handling was ruined (i.e. twitchy and difficult to hold a good line. When I went from a 90 to a 120, the bike was back to its old self.