Please tell me you always, always wear gloves.

FWIW: I prefer steel bars. My flat bars are True Temper steel and my drops are vintage road drops pulled off some ****ty old 10-speed with a bad frame but good bits on it. The Al bars (non-oversided) I've had all just seemed too flexy to me.

2 nitpicky points because I just got home from teaching English to little kids all day (not your fault, don't take it personally)

1. "not brake my bank account" BREAK is the spelling you want. A brake is the thing you should have mounted to your fork.

2. Look up the word "abashed" again.