Originally Posted by
revcp
and I'm confused by the claim that they cut down on hand positions. With drops I have four hand positions: either side of the stem, the shoulders, brake hoods, drops. With the Jones I have... four hand positions (with under the bar shifters): either side of the stem, grips, joint where the stem bar and "loop" bar join, up front on the "loop". They are great for touring, commuting and singletrack.
One of the most natural hand positions is analagous to riding the brake hoods on drops. Wrists in the vertical plane, about shoulder width apart. No equivalent on the Jones.
That is why bars like the moloko and crazy bars were developed. This may not matter to everybody, but I really notice it after a couple of hours of riding.
The Jones bars are great on more technical terrain like single track or very rough jeep tracks and mining roads. They give you that extra control that would be hard to get on drops