>>988267>So then why don't mountain bikes have wider drop bars?So, now were back to that question. It's because the frame geometry required to make them feasable is incompatible with the design goals of modern mountainbiking.
While the frames would accept such a cockpit geometry they were very popular in some circles. See John Tomac for the most famous example. He also rode disc wheels. Even those who rode flat bars due to mountainbikings clunker heritage had, as explained earlier, stem lenths and bar widths that very closely emulated the rcockpit geometry of a drop bar setup, without the actual drops.
And they are certainly making an off-road comeback with the adventure touring crowd where frame geometries allow their use.
>>988280>Flat bar road bikes address the issues that you made up by incorporating the stem length into their geometry.Please show me a picture of your bike, as it came, with a 160mm stem. That's a short reach drop bar 70mm and a (by roadbike standards) very short 90mm stem. I will not hold my breath.
Or you can just concede that you can't simply cut the bars on your road hybrid and maintain steering control similar to what a road bike offer. And stop calling your hybrid a road bike. It confuses the newcomers.
