I bought a gravel bike to recover from elbow/wrists injury a couple years ago. Flat bars were rather painful for the better part of a year. Riding on the hoods was much more neutral. At least I was out riding, right?
Since then all my riding buddies went electric, which I'm not all that interested in. I solo gravel ride more now than ever. Usually gravel roads connecting up some of the older singletrack, sometimes the same old trails I used to rail on the mountain bike. Just maybe not as fast as I used to. Which is sort of the point to maybe avoid future injury. The wider drop bar thing is certainly on my radar, and with an endorsement like that, may be my next purchase.
June 8, 2022, 10:51 a.m. - Brad Sedola
I bought a gravel bike to recover from elbow/wrists injury a couple years ago. Flat bars were rather painful for the better part of a year. Riding on the hoods was much more neutral. At least I was out riding, right? Since then all my riding buddies went electric, which I'm not all that interested in. I solo gravel ride more now than ever. Usually gravel roads connecting up some of the older singletrack, sometimes the same old trails I used to rail on the mountain bike. Just maybe not as fast as I used to. Which is sort of the point to maybe avoid future injury. The wider drop bar thing is certainly on my radar, and with an endorsement like that, may be my next purchase.