Karate Monkey: an MTB experiment

Are you able to ride on the hoods with those dirt-drops, or are you in the drops all the time? Looks like a lot of saddle-bar drop to sustain.

Good question, I've tried to get a bar position that gives me options.

My regular road bikes are set up with about 8-9 cm of saddle to bar drop. The saddle to hoods position on the KM puts my hands/back in about the same position as the top of the hoods on my road bike. I ran the bike as a single-speed for a while before going for the renovation to check it was OK.

I've also set the bar up with the top section reasonably flat, so you can ride the hoods on this too. The Woodchipper bar is really flared, so the hoods are about 42cm apart, but in the drops it's more like 50-55cm wide.