Originally Posted by
Trakhak
The OP is obviously an extreme outlier in commuting 40 miles a day. The standard commuting bikes used throughout the world for at least the last 100 years have almost universally had some form of flat bars.
Perhaps true. But IIRC the average European bike commute is 3 km (don't remember if that was round trip or one way). The last 15 years of my bike commute was 10 miles one way (or more, depending on route). A "road bike" setup surely did help on windy days, and I never had any safety or sight line issues.