I have drop bars on my road bike, and I don't like them that much. I like the flat bars on my mountain bike, but they only offer one position. When I build my touring bike, I think that I am going to go with the Nashbar trekking bars that Camel mentioned in his post. I checked out the link to Nashbar's site, and if they really weigh 506 grams (or 1.116 pounds), then they must be the heaviest aluminum bars around.