ForSale: Nitto Noodle handlebars

[Triskeliongirl]

I have the 41 cm nitto noodle on both my bikes, so I took some measurements for you knot. If I measure center to center from the center of each brake hood, I get 40 cm, and if I measure center to center from the ends of the drops, I get 42 cm. That means your 'neutral position' is 40 cm. I used to ride a salsa poco 40 cm, and while I worried about them being a little bigger, the neutral position is the same. I like them more than the salsa poco cuz the bend is smooth, the ergo bumps on the salsa poco didn't hit my hands right, and the shallow ramp on the nitto noodle lets me place the drops nearly parallel to the ground and still have the tops be fairly flat. To do that on the salsa poco I had to turn them up, but that made the drops uncomfortable. But note, the reach is very different on the two bars, reach is longer on the noodle than salsa poco, by about 2 cm. I like it, cuz it gives me an extra hand position behind the hoods, but if your stem was sized for a short reach bar you may need a new stem. FYI, here are my bikes with nitto noodle: