There are lots of different bends and widths available. Flattish bars I think are among the easier ones to compare off the bike.

What I would do (what I'll be doing with my motard bike) is pay close attention to where your hands are on your existing bars and what you don't like about that position. Are your wrists angled inward, outward, up, down? Do you feel like your hands are too far apart or too close together? Then have a friend take some measurements on your existing bars - distance between your wrists, angle of your wrists, distance between the center of the bars and the where you sit on your saddle, height of the center of the bars in relation to where you sit on your saddle.

Armed with that information you should be able to go into a bike shop that stocks a lot of different bars, hold them out in front of you in approximately the position they'd be when you're on the bike (depending on your existing configuration you may even be able to balance them on top of your existing stem), and see how you like the angles of your wrists, elbows and shoulders there.


You may still wind up putting a different type of bars on your bike, but the solution may be simpler than you think.