Butterfly Trekking Bars

[antman]

I want to try some butterfly trekking bars and am told that the best width should not be wider than your shoulders (44 cm). The only ones I can find all seem to be 57cm. Does anyone know where I can get smaller ones, or has anyone had experience with these type of bars?
I'm heading out on a long ride soon and usually use straights.
Thanks.

[Malaconotus]

I want to try some butterfly trekking bars and am told that the best width should not be wider than your shoulders (44 cm). The only ones I can find all seem to be 57cm. Does anyone know where I can get smaller ones, or has anyone had experience with these type of bars?
I'm heading out on a long ride soon and usually use straights.
Thanks.

It's drop bars where the advice is to match and not exceed shoulder width. All the butterfly bars I know of are much wider, similar in width to flat bars, and they need to be to fit controls and bends etc.

[meic]

I think that having narrow butterfly bars would lose their benefits.

viewtopic.php?t=56407&p=472033#p472033

Some reading there for you.

[CREPELLO]

I've just measured my Modolo yuma butterfly bars. They're 56cm, c-c. I've also measured how far my hands are apart on the nearer flat section - my wrist centres are 44cm!

[mrjemm]

There's always the Modolo Dumbo- can adjust at will with those things.

http://www.modolo.com/dumbo.html

[antman]

Interesting... difficult finding these in the UK.

Look good though, may be worth a shot!

[georgew]

I had the same problem but found these:
http://www.sjscycles.co.uk/humpert-ahs- ... prod24411/

These have the same virtues as Butterfly bars but are narrower and the ends can be adjusted for angle. I recommend them.

[antman]

Thanks George.
The BBB ones look pretty good too especially fitting with an adjustable stem.