A quick hello and thought on my bike

[Titania]

Thanks for the link Velo. I want to learn stuff about riding. And trekking bars? so what do they do for you?

and for all who have those bars that look like horns, what do they do? I mean the straight ahead horns, not ram horns.

Tyt, you're a local!

The Trekking bars look almost like a figure 8. The huge advantage they have over straight bars is that they give you lots of available hand positions, key when you need to get off those hand nerve bundles. They're extremely uncommon in the US, for some reason, but very common in Europe, especially for commuter bikes.

I got my Trekking bars from Harris Cyclery here in MA. Sheldon has a nice writeup on various types of bars and their uses, including the Trekking.

http://sheldonbrown.com/deakins/handlebars.html