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Biggles567
I've been looking at these Pro bars, they seem like a nice shape and go down to 36cm.
For (a lot) more money are the Lambda X-Wing carbon bars. Very narrow but quite comfortable (Josef has a pair).
I haven't had much luck finding anything actually advertised as under 36cm.
An idea I've had is to look for bars calling themselves 39/38/37/36 but measure c-c from the drops rather than the tops.
For example, Nitto B135AA in 39cm actually measure something like 35/34cm or narrower at the 'hoods positon'. That being said, the reach on those bars is extremely long which doesn't work well for me.
It also seems FSA measure their handlebars from the drops c-c and in their technical documents give measurements for the corrosponding hoods position. Some 36cm bars end up having a 34cm hood position. I'll attatch a screenshot of that.
As for anything in a classic shape I've found nothing! And as you can see I have spent a considerable amount of time thinking about handlebars...