It's not so much that I'm avoiding drop bars, as it is that I want this bike to be delightfully weird, and that pretty much requires weird bars that delight me.

Flipped cheap-o aluminum North-Road-ish bars, (or even those Schwinn ones that get raved about around here... if they're as good as their rep, somebody not named Shannon should get somebody named Nitto to make them in aluminum,) are probably where I'm going to start.

--Shannon