>You probably are refering to Cinelli Pista curved (no brake handle) bars
>used in track or criterium races. Raddoneur bars are used for mostly
>road races or criteriums and allow brake handles to be mounted.
You can put brake levers on the track bars and the big difference
from "regular" road bars is they have very little flat on the top of
the bars and the bends are deeper. I like to use track bars for
Psychocross myself. Also, Raundoneur bars are really not for any
kind of racing, but were designed for touring in specific.
>However, ***you should know in advance what width size bars you need
>(e.g. 58cm, 60cm, 62cm, or 64cm) and what diameter size stem you
>currently have***. Nitto and Cinelli Pista bars are uniquely different
>diameter sizes!
I not sure what you're talking about concerning widths since I've know of no road bar that goes even to 58cm. Also the breakdown for bar clamp diameter is 25.4mm for most Japanese and basic bars before 1970, 26.0mm for most European bars and post 70s bars, and 26.4mm is Cinelli's specific size. This is the reason I like 26.0 steel stem since you can shim them easily for 25.4 and they will stretch just fine for 26.4.
enjoy, Brandon"monkeyman"Ives
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