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Maybe Kuba would let you borrow his Look. He sure as hell never rides it...
Everybody...I'm sure HB wants your advice but I think you are all missing the point. He wants a HHSB that is practical. My advice to him was spend ~£500 on a pre cursa or a track champion with some half decent parts and see how he feels.
I've ridden most of my centuries this year on frames which a lot of you steel junkies deem too stiff or aggressive for distance use and loved every minute of it. My FP2 has barely been off the rack. I happen to like being able to feel the road through my bike. Its just my personal (lack of) taste.
Anyway...back to HBs build. He's a powerful rider and heavy set. Being a big chap myself I have found that bullhorns flex like hell when climbing and I much prefer road bars with some road levers for extra hand positions.
Laner was round mine earlier and disagreed with me but then whilst demonstrating the point that larger and more powerful riders struggle with bullhorns I managed to bend his at the stem without even giving it any welly. HB...keep in mind that you'll be matching your leg power with your upper body on the climbs and bullhorns with a stem give a lot of leverage that can give way.
This is just my personal experience and I hear great things about bullhorns from a lot of riders but I think they could be the wrong choice for Ciq when he starts racking up the miles and taking in some hills.