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Long time mtb’er here, got my first ever bike with drop bars (after 4 high end mountain bikes) few months ago and have been riding it exclusively on mtb trails (with wide flared drop bars and 2.25” tires), the drops are 100% the most controllable and intuitive position, it’s not even a contest. Hoods feel really strange for handling and even weirder is the braking action, it’s only good because it’s a neutral non-aggressive position to chill while pedaling. The drops are like, almost identical feeling to really narrow mtb bars once I’m actually in the shit, with the brake levers at the tips of my index fingers, it really feels like home, without a doubt the best position I’ve found.
The top part of my bars are fucking useless and uncomfortable to use idk what’s up with that
