Happy Holidays everyone!
Just a followup and a thank you to everyone that helped on this question/issue.
I ended up installing trekking
(butterfly) bars and although I haven't gotten the hang of them yet, I did manage to take the bike out today for some fine tuning and am starting to get comfortable. The only problem I have so far is the mirror; I already had a Blackburn Road mirror which I placed on the bars over the
(temporary) foam padding, and when I manage to find the best spot to install it, I'll have the bars
(double) wrapped in leather and will have the mirror's base wrapped under the tape. If someone's already done this with the Road, can you please send me photos of how the installation came out?
Unfortunately the grips are placed farther in that I wished for, but I can't place the airzound anythere else since the shifter display housing is very near the front of the bars.