Originally Posted by
aicabsolut
You can just bend them inward. You probably *should* loosen the screw, but with some brute force, you can just grab one and pull the hood inward.
Have you taken a tumble where your hoods got knocked out of whack? Maybe they didn't get realigned properly. Some people like them straighter than others. The hoods are generally designed to be pretty ergonomic when they're mounted straight, but brands differ as do people's hands.
I think that before you do that, you should try things like the bar rotation and saddle angle. If rotating the bars upward makes the position in the drops more awkward, you can instead move the hoods higher up on the bars and then keep a more downward rotation to get the drops right. You may want to get some help with that, and you'll have to remove and rewrap the bartape.