Originally Posted by Maelochs

If one chooses to actually research bike bars .... not biker bars ... one will find that all kinds of odd bar shapes were used. People who are half a century old and think their experience includes the whole of bicycle history ... well, you know .....

All shapes and sizes of bars have been used as bikes have come in all shapes and sizes and have been used for different purposes.

A lot of people say drop bars offer more hand positions than flat bars, including pseudo-flat-bar positions on the bar tops. But people who are honest know that most drop bars are 40-46 cm wide, and the flats are barely 30 cm or so ... which is not at all the comfortable and stable grip one gets with a well-chosen set of flat bars.

I have done countless thousand miles on each, and I am not in either "camp." But the idea that a person cannot ride a long time comfortably on flat bars ... well, you are doing it wrong, or you are just biased. This is something people all around the world know, with the exception of a few in one loud-mouthed and opinionated nation where somehow the idea that the race bikes of the late '60s and early '70s are "proper" bikes and everything else is trash, seems to be deeply entrenched.

In nations where people use bicycles for fun and recreation, transport and utility, and not as status symbols or flags showing their personality traits .... people ride what is comfortable, not what someone told them looks good. And in those countries ... people ride all kinds of bikes.

None of this has anything to do with this post, which is about nonsense. Well, except, i guess, that it is also nonsense.