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@Bagheera
So, I love my bull-horn bars..... however....
Should they really.... be set up so the main straight part of the bar is exactly horizontal, or should it be angled up to meet my wrists/hands, gripping with a comfortable amount of elbow bend.... on the forward facing straight parts.
I'm not talking aesthetics here, I'm talking pragmatic and/or design........ I have seen all variants on the road, and as much as I love them I can't find an angle that suits me for longer than a very quick blat across town.... incidentally running ss, with break-levers running off the horizontal bar out of the centre (rather than out of the ends of the bull-horns).
Does any of this makes sense, I've re-read, and even I'm a bit confused.