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Originally Posted by mkane
To narrow and you can’t breathe right.
Pros have been going to narrower bars over the last few years, to the point where, for the first time, the UCI has had to mandate a minimum width (no bars narrower than 35 cm outside to outside are allowed; they also established a limit to how far inward the brake levers can be canted, to keep riders from achieving even narrower positions). If they can remain competitive during 5-hour stages through the Alps, I would guess they're not having much trouble breathing.

Another formerly unquestioned standard is being supplanted: after many decades when almost all pro riders used crank arms that were 170 mm or longer, the two most recent Tour de France winners have been using shorter ones: Pogacar is on 165-mm cranks, and Vingegaard is riding, or at least testing, 150 mm.
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