OTP lovers!

It may have escaped your attention but up to this point I was having a bubble. For a serious reply please read the following:

In my experience, and although I've never ridden on the track (something I'm looking forward to as I get fitter after a long layoff from cycling), I've ridden many different bicycles for all sorts of reasons off and on since I was about 10 I guess, so over the past 29 years - it's what is comfortable that really counts. And that often comes down to the individual. I do ride on the drops but infrequently and find the position my bars are in perfectly comfy, thanks awfully.

It's also interesting to note that from the pictures that were posted up, very well known professional cyclists, both track and road, seem to have their bars in a more upright position. Perhaps this is because they understand and appreciate that it's what suits them best that really matters. Or, perhaps in their professional careers they just haven't had the great benefit of your obviously superior experience. If only they had positioned their bars the way 'fred' on the interweb said they have to to be right. Who knows, by now some of them might have won Olympic gold or something...

got your period?

I gave a pretty reasonable and rational argument for a horizontal bar set up and accepted that there are exceptions, and you're still arguing against it with no substance.