I think your short basebar idea is good, but you can combine that idea with your scott bar idea. For one, you can have a lot more leeway in how tight you make the various bends of the re-born scott bar, i.e., you can make the bends a lot tighter, as extreme as the alloy tubing will withstand. The reason the scott 100k bar had such gentle bends was not for reasons of ergonomics, or fit, or aerodynamics, it was so that users could get a 'closed' clamp stem on to the bars. Since now 99% of stems have completely 'open' clamps, you can go crazy and make a bar that is 100% functional.

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