this handlebar shape, is it designed to ride mainly in drops? if i wanted to make the tops usable (where i spend 80% of my time) handlebars would need to be rotated quite some way up making reach very long and drops pointing 45deg to the ground..
Well if not these bars, what else would people recommend for a 26mm quill stem on a
road bike (they're not for a tourer/randonneur) using Campagnolo Ergos (the older 10-speed style)? Looking for something with around 85mm reach +/- 5-10mm
The
Nitto M177 "Noodle" bars have flatter ramps, but also have the prominent tops swept back (albeit with a slight flare in the drops), which I can see potentially getting in the way when sprinting in the drops, though maybe that's not an issue in practice? I think they're intended more as a touring/randonneur bar. They also have no cable grooves at all, which may lead to less comfortable grip on the tops and ramps, though I guess that's less of an issue.
There are the
Nitto M190 Euro 80 bars, which are designed for Campagnolo Ergos and are double-grooved and have quite flat ramps, and are heat-treated and relatively light, but I'm not a massive fan of the non-round "ergonomic" shape. I guess they don't look too bad on these two road bikes, though:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/76452700@N05/7569137368 https://www.sonnet.cc/road-bikeThere are also some more shallow "compact" bar options, which I've not ruled out, but understand that they can be difficult or near impossible to fit on some quill stems, like my Nitto Pearl, due to the tighter curves involved. Also think all of them either have no grooves or just a single front groove e.g. (from highest quality to lowest):
Nitto M106 - if I could get these to fit the stem, I'd be quite interested in these
Soma HWY OneDeda Speciale 26Does anyone have any experience of any of the above, especially with a Nitto Pearl quill stem? Are there any other bars I should be considering?