> For marathons though they offered a change of hand position. TBH I don't really get it, because I can put my hands in the same position (grabbing the ends of

> For marathons though they offered a change of hand position. TBH I don't really get it, because I can put my hands in the same position (grabbing the ends of my bar with a rotated wrist) without the bar-ends just fine. Yes, the leverage is a bit smaller, but I can do this for "resting", and I can even pull some. Mind you, ever since we had these crazy low gears (even on 1x now) there is no need for the extra leverage a bar-end provides. Maybe that's the reason they went extinct.