Drop bar converters for flat bars...what do you think of these ?

[pwa]

I have never found a flat bar + bar end combo that works for me, having wasted a lot of money on the Ergon stuff, so I'd just get suitable drop bars and have done with it.

[maximus meridius]

When I used drop bars, one of my most liked hand positions was on the ramps, quite often the smooth curve between those and the tops.

Me too. I love my Nitto Noodles for exactly that reason.

I wouldn't do what the OP has done, but as others have said, if it works for him, that's OK.

Also they do look fugly.

[mangizmo]

I have never found a flat bar + bar end combo that works for me, having wasted a lot of money on the Ergon stuff, so I'd just get suitable drop bars and have done with it.

We are all different, for me, flat bars with long bar ends works really really well, loads of leverage for climbing, I have big problems getting drops to work as they are generally too narrow and too low, with this setup I can space the drops at any distance and the drops are higher and much more useful, but we are all different, I am amazed that anybody finds 44cm drops of any use, but its the most popular width so it must be me thats different

[mangizmo]

Also they do look fugly.

Tri bars, butterfly bars, there are loads of weird and wonderful designs that are unconventional in appearance, these look different but its all in the eye of the beholder, they look ok to me

[freiston]

Not that I've ever used them, but the guy who runs the cyclingabout.com website likes these bars: https://www.cyclingabout.com/koga-denham-bars/.

He designed them and they're named after him.

[pwa]

I have never found a flat bar + bar end combo that works for me, having wasted a lot of money on the Ergon stuff, so I'd just get suitable drop bars and have done with it.

We are all different, for me, flat bars with long bar ends works really really well, loads of leverage for climbing, I have big problems getting drops to work as they are generally too narrow and too low, with this setup I can space the drops at any distance and the drops are higher and much more useful, but we are all different, I am amazed that anybody finds 44cm drops of any use, but its the most popular width so it must be me thats different

Yes, I agree with you completely about finding something that works for you. My own preference is for shallow, wide drops, and I rarely put my hands on the lower section. My hands are either on the brake hoods, or half on them, for 95% of the time. And try though I might, I can't replicate that as comfortably with flat bars and bar ends. One problem is that bar ends don't usually have the brake levers at your finger tips, so I can't do most of my riding with my hands on them. They get reserved for climbs and safer bits of the route. So they aren't a good substitute for drop bar brake hoods at all. And the normal flat bar hand position, for me, has my hands at an unnatural angle. If, sat in an armchair, I stick my arms out horizontally in front of me, my thumbs, in a relaxed state, will be the uppermost part of my hands, the little fingers lowest. That is how my hands are on drop bar brake hoods, and not how they are on normal flat bar grips. I think that explains why flat bar grips make my wrists ache.

But if you get something that works for the peculiarities of your own anatomy, as I have with mine, you have done something right. Amen to that.