Originally Posted by
cerewa
I don't know about the rest of you, but I feel weird/unsafe riding with my hands away from the brake levers... kind of like riding a car with no seatbelt. I always set up my bars to have the brake levers easily available in my favorite hand position.
My old Trek 1200 had integrated brakes/shifters on drop bars. To shift or brake, I had to move my hands, unless they were on the hoods.
If you want multiple hand positions, you have to have multiple brake positions, if you don't want to move your hands. If a single brake position is unsafe, then only flat bars are safe, or bars with two sets of brake levers (and that still doesn't cover all hand positions.)