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Two Peoples Bay Beach - {Day 11- 16} by Andrew Priest (Aushiker), on Flickr

Day 11: Esperance to Albany: The Unconventional Ride. 750 km in 10 days. Having crossed over from Normans Beach, this was to be my last beach ride for the trip. Four and half kilometres cruising along Two Peoples Bay Beach.

Taken with a Olympus OM-D E-M5 ii and a Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 14-150 F4.0-5.6 II.
 
I assume you, like seemingly everyone else, adore that Jones Loop bar? I have a similar setup on my commuter mtb... Velo Orange bar with a 40 degree sweep, but narrower than the Jones and no loop. Love the hand position.
 
Our electric mountain bike came with big, dumb, straight flat bars. I switched them to these, with nice sweeps at the ends. I wish the bend happened half an inch sooner, to give me a tiny bit more real estate for grips and controls.

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And the VO bars on my 2000 Fisher Mt Tam. These are perfect for me, on this bike. Cannot describe how much I love this hand position.

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Our electric mountain bike came with big, dumb, straight flat bars. I switched them to these, with nice sweeps at the ends. I wish the bend happened half an inch sooner, to give me a tiny bit more real estate for grips and controls.

View attachment 178860KBRX5197 by gordopuggy, on Flickr

And the VO bars on my 2000 Fisher Mt Tam. These are perfect for me, on this bike. Cannot describe how much I love this hand position.

View attachment 178861KBRX5435 by gordopuggy, on Flickr
I've seen these, and I read your comment on Andrew's post. What is the advantage of swept bars?
 
Comfort.

For most people, 40-45 degrees is about the angle your hands and wrists want to be at when you hold the handlebars. Straight bars, or bars with maybe 5 degrees of bend, have the outside edges of your hands bent outward. If you hold your arms straight out and downward, like you're holding invisible bars, rotate them between the "flat" position, and the "45 degree" position. You can feel your forearms relaxe as you go back to ~45 degrees.

The selling points of drop bars are 1) multiple hand positions available (flats, on the hoods, down in the drops), and if the bike isn't too big for you, many people find it comfy.

The selling point of truly flat bars is supposed to be leverage in the dirt, which is why they tend to be a mile wide. I've never had a leverage issue where I wished my bars were wider.

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Thus, bars like his Jones H or my Velo Orange (or many others) that sweep back tend to put your hands -- and the shifting/braking controls, unlike on drop bars -- in a very relaxed all-day position.
 
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