anyone riding with a FSA compact handlebar?

[fatbottomedgurl]

I just had the Bontrager Fit compact bar in a 40 installed today. I'll check in after my ride tomorrow.

[djgafi]

thank you girls!
i noticed that the top surface area of the compact FSA'a results slightly smaller than the center-to-center measure of the handles...
so i was wondering if if didn't result being too narrow for a upper hand position, like thorn pointed out...

i've been fitted for a size 40 compact handlebar, my shoulder are about 39mm at the moment i'm riding with a standard 42, and i certainly could use a shorter drop...

i'll test the alluminum compact wing pro size 40 and see how it goes. it should be quite a change from now... will submit my impressions soon!

[fatbottomedgurl]

I rode my new bars. I really liked being able to reach my levers from the drops (we shimmed the levers also). All in all, I think a compact bar is a good idea for us with small hands and shorty fingers. And they look good too on a small frame!

[djgafi]

still waiting for mine... should have them mounted by tomorrow.
i rode last week and had to come down a long & steep
hill with my standard handlebars and i suffered all the way through.
Break leverages were too far away for my hands, and it was a real pain.

can't wait to try the new "pro wings"... will report back in a few days!

[VeloVT]

I'm slightly ADD right now and have only skimmed the posts so far, so forgive me if I repeat or say something otherwise stupid . I have FSA Wing Pro compacts on my roadie. I bought a 38 because I generally ride a 38 comfortably on standard, c-c measured bars. I *****love****** the shape of the drops, but apparently they're measure at the ends, not at the tops/hoods -- and there is a small out-flare, so the measurement at the hoods is narrower. I *like* them, but would have been happier with 40s, I think. The ergonomic shape of the tops feels quite good in your hands, although my bars are so narrow I don't use the tops much.

[wildeny]

FSA compact handlebars (Wing Pro or Omega) are measured on the end of the drops, c-c. But their width on the top/hood are shorted by 2 cm.

My Fuji Finest RC (XS) comes with a 40 cm handlebar that is compact one but is measured on the top/hood => the width of ends c-c is 42 cm. That's a little too wide, I think, for a XS frame. Recently I ordered a FSA Omega 38cm, which should be fit for my shoulder according to an article on Bicycling.

Why don't the manufactures measure their handlebars in the same way?

[Miranda]

...which should be fit for my shoulder according to an article on Bicycling.

Why don't the manufactures measure their handlebars in the same way?

Wouldn't that be LOVELY if all the makers had a uniform standard? Would be too easy . Gheez. Thanks for that link. I wondered how they got the measurement calculation.