Originally Posted by
Classtime
One thing to consider: Will narrower bars provide room for your hands and a Berthoud bag?
The narrower bars will have two future homes: First is my silver Mondonico road bike, which is a go fast and is very happy with a medium saddle bag. For that one the goal is to get a flat top and a compact profile, but it has very quick steering already. It uses 21 mm tubulars.
The other target is either for my Trek 610 which has pretty low trail due to a custom fork, or for my Trek 720 which is nominally a tourer, but is really just going to be (I hope) a comfy long wheelbase cruiser.
I do want a shorter-reach bar for the Terraferma but it does not need to be narrower. I would't complain if I can find a flat top compact in the same wide width.