Originally Posted by bkrownd

Great, another insulting snotty comment. Please do the following experiment for me: ride down the road at 30 MPH one-handed, start guzzling out of your water bottle, hit an unexpected rock, pot-hole or road warp at the same time, then tell me how smug you look with road-rash on your face. I've been riding on two wheels for about 30 years - I don't need lessons like some little kiddie. Rocks, sand, gravel, glass, cracks, car parts, potholes and those annoyingly invisible road warps are just a fact of bicycling life. Hitting them one-handed WILL throw you off balance, and riding one-handed makes it very difficult to recover. Even more so if you're trying to brake or turn at the time, though I can't imagine trying to brake one-handed under any circumstances. Been there, done that.