Well, let me correct one misconception. If you're steering with your hands, that's appropriate for muscling a slow moving mountain bike on the trails, but it's not how you should be steering on the road except if you happen to be going very slow and you are maneuvering through stopped cars or pesky pedestrians. But if you really must have wide bars, there are some wide drop bars too. A lot of early mountain bike had drop bars.
Last edited by Longfemur; 09-03-08 at 09:14 PM.