Originally Posted by
SkipII
Thanks, all. Yes, there is a video but I just wasn't sure if there was anything tricky about the dropped bar,. since the video is for straight bar.
tops of the bar should be level with the ground. the hoods of the brake levers should be level with the tops of the bars.
Dont go full hobo and crank the bars up to the sky. It renders the brake levers useless in the drops, makes for some extreme wrist angles when riding the hoods, and simply looks bad. If you need the tops of the bars higher, raise the stem on the steerer. If you need the tops of the bars even higher, get a stem that angles up.
It will take a few days for the new stem to arrive, but you will have a bike set up properly in the end.