Originally Posted by gmason
That too. But I was thinking more along the lines of "if both sizes would fit equally well, they wouldn't waste their time making the second one, would they?"
Yeah, well, Ritchey makes their road bars in a bizarre "in-between" size.
Stems with removable face-plates are more forgiving of size discrepancies. But jamming a bar like that into a stem with one bolt and having to use pliers to force things to fit should raise a RED FLAG!!!
The red flag of course meaning STOP! Use the RIGHT size components!!