Any experience with both the Spano and VentureMax or similar?

I'll be giving up my AL VentureMax selling a bike. My Moots has Enve Compact too narrow for the short stem. I love the VentureMax backs weep in addition to the shallow drop. QBP/Whisky doesn't seem to publish there being any back sweep. I don't hate the bump in VentureMax but don't think I need it either.

The Enve have some suspension or flex I never noticed with plastic MTB bars so am tempted to go plastic vs recycled beer cans here. To some extent my Moots is all about keeping an old guy able to be on the bike.

So far I'm not finding other shallow drop short reach like these bars. I'm open to other brands I might have missed.

The fit matter at hand is I'm longer in legs than torso and I've lost some height. My setup might seem strange to someone with different body shape and decades younger. I don't do races or road or pure gravel riding. I leave my house on 25-90 mile rides that cover pavement, gravel and single track.

Thank you for any tips or product ideas I might have missed.

stu wrote:Another option would be a flat bar with bar ends.  Reach would be less than a drop bar, width could be just about anything you want, and available sweep varies from zero to more than 30 degrees.  The downside is you'd have to change your levers.

Thank you but I know I want either another VentureMax or possibly the Whisky Spano or similar. I very much like the more position options of drop bars. Our Fargo and another bike have given me some experience with the flare, drop and various options.

Of course it would be sweet if the two I am interested were on the what bars web site. I'll look through that more tonight.

Thanks again.

Volsung wrote:That's pretty impressive that Spanos are more compliant than AGXs.  I switched from 46cm ec70s to 44cm AGXs and they were way more compliant.  I love the ec70 shape but the carbon isn't as tuned.  

Thank you for the input. The Easton and FSA pages don't give me the impression they have the back sweep I really liked with the Ritchey. @JWB475 photo is very helpful but the back sweep seems less than VentureMax.

My AL VentureMax are not flexy. I didn't put much thought to it until I realized that can be part of the comfort with the Enve that came on the bike. I don't always fall for fancy stuff but am thinking of sticking with the composite bars because the ones I have are part of how I can be on the bike longer.

Thanks again. I'll do more product research tonight but it seems like others with back sweep are wider than I want to go.