Originally Posted by
GamblerGORD53
Those bars both suck, and so does deFaileurs BTW. You want a ride around bike or something multi-purpose USEFUL, like a tour bike?? Something like the Koga World Traveller without the bungie fork, but I see it's out of stock now. There's lots of others, might need custom for XXL tall.
Nothing beats full sweptback bars for comfort. Even at 73 lbs, I've ridden my Rohloff14 tour bike just the last 25 days >> 91, 95, 97, 96 and yesterday 116 miles. Only thing that hurts is my bum. After 21,500 miles the R14 is quiet as a mouse with ZERO chance of not getting me home everytime.
A Rohloff14 alone costs more than my (Claris) racebike. And in the dead of a Norwegian or Danish winter, the go to drivetrain of choice is derailleurs my friend. Rim brakes and derailleurs have stood the test of time, and when we have polluted, virused and cyber attacked ourselves back to a Bronze Age level of technical infrastructure, there will not be much hope of keeping tricky bits of kit like IG and/or drum brake hubs at peak performance. So, for boomers like us, it's all well and good to thumb our noses at foundation level tech, but it's best not to get too sanctimonious about it. It won't last.