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Original bars are 25.something, or 25?
If it's half a millimeter, say 25.4/25.6 then you'll definitely be okay, but if it's going from 25 to 26, or 25.4 to 26.4 you might struggle.
I had a 24.5 stem and 25.4 bars, and the whole millimeter was too much to stretch. You may be okay though, or you may have scratchy insertion marks.
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possibly a really dense question. My handlebars broke on the way home the other night. Popped along to the nearest bike shop to see if they had replacements in stock, they didn't but ordered one in. My question is this. The original bars were 25mm and it appears (I've just noticed) they ordered 26mm. How flexible are stems? Can one that previously held a 25mm bar take a 26 mm one?