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I saw a chap on a singlespeed on OKR this morning wobbling and swerving alarmingly all over the road as he slowed for several sets of lights and then stabilising a bit as he picked up some speed again. He had the classic swaying head/upper body + left/right pedal mash of a newish cyclist but he was barely in control of his bike at low speed.
Mystery solved when I went past him to see he had chopped his bars to about 25cm like what those couriers do.
The combination of twitchy steering and no core stability is proper scary to see in the wild.