Originally Posted by slotibartfast
By the way, Prosody, if your hands are getting numb on the flat bars, try making sure that your wrists are straight. I find that when my hands go numb, I've bent my wrists. Straightening out my wrists usually does the trick for my numbness.
Good point. A lot of people rotate flat bars so that the brake levers are pointed straight forward or even more upward, presumably to bring them closer. They should be angled so that there is a straight line from your forearms to hands.