How short to cut bars?

Also, don't feel like you have to cut any of it off if you don't want, david. Nitto risers aren't that wide to start off with. It's not the law that when you get handlebars, you have to cut bits of them off to make them shorter.

Just look at what chicago and yorker couriers were doing 3 yrs ago and copy them. seems to be the cool thing to do-that is i presume why you're trimming em? Do something fresh and use your stem with one hand.