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MisterMikkel
@mdpye
The bars are 48cm, I think. The stem is short, but not super short (90 or 100mm at a guess).
But I ride on the centre of my drops on a similar sized frame (w suicide levers) only using 30cm or less of width in that position and am perfectly happy.
I'm just weird, I like narrow. I have fairly narrow shoulders and take a 40cm drop bar on my racer.
I'm not even sure that I am unstable on the wide bars, or perhaps I just over correct given the massive difference in leverage. Either way, I don't really feel in control if they're wide, I feel like I'm trying to steer a boat!
The fear of not fitting through a gap is real. I've internalised the width of my other bars, so these ones worry me when I pass wing mirrors etc.