I've heard of that, It seems like most pros are still with the narrow forearm idea but in the TTT at the tour this year Liberty Seguros had some guys with pretty wide placement.

I know what you mean, what I was referring to was to open up the forearm rests as wide as they go (which with many aerobars is pretty wide) just to get that extra leverage for steering but still be in the rough aero position and then after hes comfortable with it, optimise the fit for speed. Not necessarily to the extreme of like dave z http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/20...05-itt-zabr-63 , but still in to a comfortable width