Originally Posted by Kimmo

Further to Maelochs 's long and detailed post about the biomechanics of road bikes, the bars offer a huge variety of hand positions, allowing you to fine tune your position according to varying conditions and avoid the fatigue and discomfort of maintaining a single position.

And, huge point, the bars are only as wide as your shoulders, so you're far less likely to clip them on a rearview mirror or something, and you have an instant intuitive grasp of whether you can make a gap.

All of which, in my view, implies that a road bike is pure bicycle, and everything else is a specialised distortion of that. Pure bike is pure joy.



On the right sort of road, dudes with sufficient cajones on road bikes can outrun motorbikes.

Tell me that ain't badass AF.