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@Rod_Munch
I had some Easton bars on mine that were ok until I realised that, in pushing the brake levers in as far as possible to get the neatest fold, I had scored a line in the carbon on both sides with them. It probably would have been fine but, given I regularly have to honk a SS up Muswell Hill, I couldn't escape the visions of both sides snapping and the stem piercing me through the heart at the point of maximum gruntage.
I like my bars narrow though - someone with normal sized shoulders (and less obsessed with fold size) probably wouldn't have the same issue...