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@lae
Yeah I have these on my Gazelle. I found them cheap and comfortable, 26.0 clamp, but if you have a quill stem rather than an open-face stem, they're an absolute bastard to fit due to the tight curvature. I've got a Nitto Technomic whose clamp tapers at the bolt quite dramatically - if your stem's got a clamp that is equally wide all the way around, I don't think you'll be able to install the bars at all.
Even with the stem jammed open and covered in grease, I scratched the bars getting them round the first bend (went over with emery paper to completely remove the scratches, which were only as deep as the grain of the material, so no worries about notch-sensitivity and subsequent bar-snapping leading to death)