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Max: if it's for work, I'd use risers. I never really liked working on drops. Ended up on the flats the entire time, and no where near brakes. Which is fine for the most part, but what's the point of having drops if you're not using them. With a nice set of risers you can get a comfortable upright position, nice wide bars, brakes right there. Seems to make sense to me.

But, as people have said, your personal preference.

Nice comment Mark. Thanks. I worked on risers last winter and as far as I remember the position was really nice. It was a completely different kind of bike though, a brakeless fixed Steamroller.

I think I'm just afraid of getting the stem length wrong if I go for risers. I know my sizing with road bars and last time I used risers I just fluked it with spare parts.

Definitely food for thought.