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You're not getting the point, it doesn't matter where shimano say you should have your hoods. They should go where you like them, look at how many bikes have their hoods tilted upwards. It's because people like them like that not because they're trying to defy your logic, hell, Campagnolo even provide the ability to tilt your hoods up if you use their large hand adapters. If Volkswagen told you you should be driving your car with your arms crossed because that's how they designed it, would you? Also anyone's opinion about how anyone else should have their bars is irrelevant if they like them like that.

The levers on that bar are turned inwards as they're designed like that, and the lower you'd run the the more angled in they'd be because of the sweep on the bars.

Looking at my hoods compared to yours they're at a similar angle, I just have my lever reach wound in more that you do, again, makes no difference it only matters that that's how you like your bars. My hoods are at that angle because I've ridden classic drops for years and that's the position They're in on a classic drop, yet no one makes a swept out, aero, classic drop so I chose these bars because I liked the shape. I don't like having my hoods perfectly flat but that doesn't make it wrong, or anyone that does like them perfectly flat in the wrong. Bar setup is pretty much down to personal preference.