Originally Posted by
PedallingATX
I am trying to figure out a handlebar setup for my bike. Right now, I have some traditional road bike handlebars, but I was wondering how comfortable they would be without brake hoods. Usually, on my road bike, I keep my hands wrapped around the brake hoods. On this fixie conversion, I will not have any brakes or hoods, so would that style handlebar still be comfy or should I chop it to make a bullhorn?
People often fail to realize that standard road bike bars with hoods provide ALL THREE hand positions.
- Tops (good for cruising)
- Drops (for sprinting. Pretty much uncomfortable for anything else)
- Hoods (cruising, sprinting, climbing)
In the hipster world these would be three different bars:
- Flatbar/risers
- Track Drops
- Bullhorns
If you like riding on hoods then you will probably like bullhorns.