| I had the same problem. When I rode more than about 8-10 miles my
hands bothered me a lot. Tingling fingers, numbness, whole hand felt
like it was asleep. I couldn't hold a pencil for a long while after
finishing a ride.
I had the SPENCO grips too, but when the folks at the shop checked out
my position then found a couple things: 1. I had the seat too far
back so I was carrying too much weight on my hands (and coincidentally
not positioned properly over the pedals), 2. my handlebars were
considerably too narrow. Correcting these two things helped a lot.
But, I found as I started riding farther I still ran into problems.
So, I bought a pair of the Spenco gloves. Using these with the Spenco
grips I have ridden 40+ miles several times with NO hand
problems. It is like night and day.
The only problem I can see with this setup is that with the bulky grips
and the bulky padded gloves, you need LARGE hands to get around the brake
levers. I haven't had any problem, but if your hands are small you
might.
good luck
Dave P.
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> The only problem I can see with this setup is that with the bulky grips
> and the bulky padded gloves, you need LARGE hands to get around the brake
> levers. I haven't had any problem, but if your hands are small you
> might.
>
If you have to pick one - get the gloves! They're expensive but
they really do the job. They completely fixed my numbness problem
even with normal bars with non-padded tape.
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| This may be way off base for your type pf riding, but until this
summer I'd always used regular drop bars, like most of the rest
of you, I imagine. But then I bought a new bike and had Scott aero
bars installed. With the Scotts, or any other aero, NO weight falls
on your hands. It's all on your forearms just below your elbows.
In fact, your hands are completely loose. But the tradeoff -- isn't
there always a tradeoff -- is that now I feel more stress on the
back of my neck, because the aero bars place your upper body more
parallel to the road. Still, it's not as bad a numb hands. And there
is little pain to your forearms, even on long rides, because the
bars come with substantial padding where it counts. And the control
is surprisingly stable, considering the fact that both hands and
arms are MUCH closer to the stem than where most riders grip drop
bars.
Ken
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