This is my-totally-subjective-opinion(tm), but I hate the look of drops without hoods. I also hate older-style levers and hoods (it doesn't help if they've already turned to slime and/or dropped off, earning the jargon "STI" a place before it's time). I also hate the thought of riding on drop bars without hoods, and yet I find myself spending less and less time on the hoods and more and more split between the drops and tops. The tops!? WTF am I turning into? There's barely any room on the tops of my old, narrow rando- bars in the first place! Actually I think it's because I hurt my wrist two weeks ago and couldn't put my hands on the curves/bends/whatever-you-call-the-first-turn-forward the way I used to. Plus I'm too #*$%ing busy to go for a ride longer than fifteen minutes and I haven't been out on the open road in ages.