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I've been slack on this, had a busy couple of weeks of work and I've got bike fatigue at the moment, but i'll share my stem / bar combo woes:
These were my options:
I wanted to go with the pro chrome, but they're both apparently 25.8 diameter, and I frustratingly scratched my bars trying to get them on and didn't manage it. Tried the coin trick, hand gel alcohol as lube etc but no way was it going on without serious scratching - if at all. Got stuck towards the centre where the diameter of the bar increases.
3ttt status stems were next choice but I couldn't even get round the bend of the bars. Impossible.
So I took the salsa off my concorde, and that was the only one that fit, but the reach with that stem and bar combo was ridiculous.
Wasn't going with that, so resigned myself to ditching my brand new bars which I've scratched, and going with my trusty deda piegas (again off my concorde) with the pro chrome. (Weirdly much easier to get the pro chrome on these even though bar diameter should be the same).
All fine, bars not as cool, but whatever.
Decision was made, until this came up on ebay and I thought I'd chance an offer. The guy accepted and it turned up yesterday....
It's a bit ridiculous, and there's enough going on with this bike already, but the bars fit and it's funky, so it's staying.
TL;DR - bars and stem indecision resolved. Just needs cabling up and I'm done.