Was fooling around today and set up my aerobars this way just for kicks after seeing Tom A aerobar set up in the P4 thread. I rode it for about an hour on the trainer and felt great with the straight extensions and having the brakes set up this way gave me a new hand position. I am going to cable the bike and take it out on the road. Stem, basebar, shifters,brakes and aerobars came in at 900g total weight.

So any thought as to why this would be a bad idea?