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Have a bit of a gubbed neck so looking for something really short and shallow.
What they like for road use?
Do you get a decent hood position? Or do you need to set them up to ride the dropped part all the time?
I find them way too wide for road use. The hood position is fine, just takes a bit of getting used to. For short and shallow there are a number of more road focussed bars which fit that bill. Something like [url= http://www.planet-x-bikes.co.uk/i/q/HBPX6061SD/planet-x-road-bar-strada-shallow-drop ]these guys from Planet-X[/url]?
I use them on my Singular Peregrine and tend to ride on the hoods most of the time. The angle makes that position really comfortable.
I ve toured thousands of miles on the hoods. I rarely used the drops on the road though.
Regularly using them on a Tricross, road and trail with no problems at all. More hand positions so you're shifting around all the time over distance anyway though I tend to be on the hoods most of the time. Only really on drops downhill. Had them on my Swift and then changed to J bars. Thinking of swapping back.
I have some on a road bike - I've injured both wrists in the past and they get sore on normal drops. Unfortunately they do on these as well, so thinking of going back to "normal"
They are shallow though so may well suit you. Feel pretty wide when on the drops, I find
I use the drops lots
I've got them on my Condor Fratello (and 'others' 😉 ) - They [i]are[/i] wide, but I don't race and I'm old and slow, so they are neither in the way, nor have a perceptibly negative effect on my aero-positioning.
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I find they are very comfy on the hoods, I can ride for miles like that - they are fine on the drops too - I'm not one for big drops (probably for the reasons above), so they are pretty much perfect for me.
For contrast my mid-90's MBK has deeper / conventional drops, and whilst it's great fun I'm only out racing around the block for 10 minutes, but it very quickly gets wearing after that.
Not that it's any kinda big deal, but they don't look out of place either (subjective).
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(I was still setting everything up here, that's the only reason that the steerer is still uncut [i]etc[/i] 🙄 ).
I do use bar-end shifters tho' - I'm not sure how they'd feel with STI?
I'm not sure that this'll sound very likely, but I find that I can get a pretty similar overall position on these, to the position I get riding on H-bars, and H-bars are my 'flat' bar of choice (being equally comfortable / same posture etc).