Old 06-16-22, 10:54 AM
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For your style of riding I can't really say. However I've been use to 38cm wide drops all my cycling life. My previous '91 Paramount re-build I put 42cm bars on and didn't really like them but lived with it for almost 4 years till I got a new bike. My new bike it had 42cm bars too and I still didn't like them. The issue mostly seemed to be that it had me braced too steady. So the natural swaying side to side was absorbed by my arms/shoulders alone. Going back to 38cm bars in combination with a 30mm shorter stem turned out to be the best thing I have so far done for my fit on my new bike. And that bike is the smaller of the split between the two sizes I fell between on the mfr's sizing.

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