Can You Change Road Bike Handlebars

I don t want to go back to mountain biking i like the look of the road bikes.

Can you change road bike handlebars. There s a lot you can do to change the bike to meet your needs but with regards to more or less turning your hybrid into a road bike i ll be brutally honest. I m more comfortable with flat bars like i used to ride when i was a teenager on my mtn. I feel like i m going to fall off the bike when i ride a road bike with drop downs i don t know why. Most road bikes use a 700c wheel size with a 23mm width but modern road bikes can often accommodate much larger tires as wide as 32mm.

Can you put flat handlebars on a racing road bike. Finding the best road handlebars for your bike can make a huge difference to your comfort help you achieve a better fit and potentially dampen more vibration before it makes its way to your hands. The first step you can take to make your road bike more comfortable is to swap in some wider tires. That s costly and rarely worth it.

The conversion also includes going from downtube shifters to handlebar mounted mountain bike type trigger shifters. I show how to convert a road bike from drop bars to flat bar handlebars. Hybrids often come with a mountain stem and mountain bars shifters and brake levers all of which have different clamp diameters than their road counterparts and thus aren t cross compatible.