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Hulsroy
NotDotMatt
Can I poke the collective for a bit of advice?
Historically I've used maes type bars for the last couple of decades and been very happy with them, I tried compact bars out a while back and didn't get on with them, but I don't think I gave them a fair shot.
Recently I've started experimenting with compact bars on some of my bikes again for 'reasons', but I'm struggling a tiny bit with positioning, the issue is I have big palms but short sausage fingers and I'm finding the reach to brake levers a little greater with compacts that I'm used to, and it's exacerbated if I raise the hoods too much. I'm also quite fond of a flat transition from ramps to hoods, but I'm feeling like I want the hooks to be rotated a bit more down/back. Any of this making sense?
A pic as an example on one bike I'm struggling with a little, I feel like I want the bar to be rotated down on this bike to put the drops in a more comfy place, but then I need to move the hoods up and the reach to brake levers increases more than I'm happy with, and I start to lose my flat ramps.
Do you think I just need to fiddle a bit more and give it some more miles/time to adapt or am I on a hiding to nothing and should head back to my go-to maes/parallel bars?