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I must says the unintentional misspelt of the Salsa Cowbells is hilarious...
Ha, misread what you were saying.
Not sure what my bars are. Reach is fine, drop is a bit intense currently with carbon forks / stem combo. When "winter" steel forks, stem has more stack so drop is fine. The winter stem isn't custom by the way. It's a VO stem that Mario finished to match the frame. I could change it for something else if but I'd rather not as I quite like them. Are they not recommendable bars around that come in different reach and drop? With a cool shape... The Ritchey have some ergo vibe about them that I wouldn't minds losing...
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Once I know what the model is, I can able to dig out some recommendation that have a different shape and drop but with the same reach so you don't need to change the stem as well.
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BTW found out what bar it was by looking at your topic and seeing this photo;
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Your bar have a 78mm reach with a normal 128mm drop.
Salsa Cowbell (if it's not already recalled as usual) is 76mm reach and 126mm drop, what great about the Cowbell is that the drop have a much more gentle slope and easier to reach the brake levers compare to your current set up (bar is rotated too high to begin with), so I'm pretty certain you'll get on better with the Cowbell.
Your current Ritchey bar should be roughly this angle (little lower, and levers higher) with the bottom part nearly horizontal;
edscoble
I must says the unintentional misspelt of the Salsa Cowbells is hilarious.
It depend on what you want, do bear in mind that you have a custom stem, a different handlebar will likely to have a different reach that if you find the reach perfect with the current bar, you might not like the other bars with a different reach.
Which Ritcheys handlebar exactly are we talking about? they published the reach and drop of the handlebar on their website so you can try and find a similar reach one in a different shape.