I have 2 pairs of the old (2007 I think) Truvativ team road bars which are compact and a true 46cm center to center, I’ve been scouring Ebay to see if I can get another pair as I now want another drop-bar bike and I’m too used the shape of them to use another bar. (#1stworldproblems)
Everyone else’s 46’ers are measured from their outside edges are are really 44’s.
With all the MTB’er buying road bikes and the whole cyclocross boom I’m amazed nobody else has made some wider road bars, the Nitto’s are only 26mm clamp so aren’t really suitable sadly.
So all my nice, shiny road bikes will continue to ruin tatty, ancient £30 road bars for the foreseeable.
Come on 3T/Pro/Deda/Easton/Thomson/Ritchey/Zipp, you know you want to!