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07-31-14 | 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by shopco43

Thanks to all for your replies. I have decided to leave well enough alone and mount the 39cm bars.

The fashion for wider handlebars is pretty recent, and appears to be related to the popularity of mountain bikes. MTB's got a lot of people into biking, which was good; when they switched to road riding, they wanted their road bike to fit like an MTB, which was not necessarily so good.

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