Riding with different sized road bars

[T-Bob]

Just borrowed a friends BMC as I'm overseas and didn't bring my bike. Had a free morning so went out to turn the legs up a few climbs and taking some old training grounds.

 

Only thing was his set up included 38 wide bars. Now I normally ride 44 wide and they looked freaky to say the least as I've never gone smaller that 42, even in fitting.

 

They took a bit of getting used to but I'm deffo trading on my current bars for a narrower set. They were brilliant, better control, great response time, great out of the saddle climbing and could get a interesting semi aero position very easily.

 

Only 'negative' was that they made you go on the drops a lot more as opposed to on the hoods. Not sure I could go 38 though... am in in the UK with a pretty empty bag so might just visit planet X and see what they have.