Cycling has a new thing. It’s turned-in hoods and outward-pointing brake levers. Well, actually, it’s not so new, but Tadej Pogačar has recently adopted it, and many of his colleagues in the peloton have too. But mutiny is around the corner.
Not because half the peloton staunchly believe that handlebars should point completely forward without being turned inwards by even a smidgen of a degree (Ok, Christopher Juul-Jensen of Jayco-AlUla aside: “I have no opinion other than you’ll never see me ride with those.”) but because a growing percentage are taking the issue to the extreme. Some are pointing the brake hoods so far towards the centre that they start to mimic a gravel bike’s handlebar set-up.
