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Indeed, I ask because I'm planning a slight tune up of my bike. I like the position of my elbow pads but I've never liked the extensions - they're too long and I think I'd prefer S-bends.
It's stupid, but the bike originally came with the extensions on a similar level to the base bar and so I fiddled about until I found the height I wanted the extensions to be and thus set the height of the base bar entirely by accident. As it happens this mightn't have been a bad thing because my bike (as pictured) is set up for Ironman rides and so setting the base bars high might have allowed me some extra comfort and a slightly more upright position when climbing. This year however I expect that if I race at all it will only be shorter TTs so the base bars will only come into play at the turns so I might try slamming them a bit.