Posted by Jeff Mayner on August 12, 2009, 7:37 pm
> If I ride more than about 15 minutes, my hands start getting numb, I
> presume from the vibration in the handlebars. I have a 2-cyl cruiser, and
> it doesn't seem to vibrate a whole lot to me, but my hands sure feel it.
> Wearing gloves helps some, but not nearly enough.
> Anyone else have this problem?
> Any suggestions?
> Someone put some all steel custom grips on my bike. I thought about
> changing them to some with the rubber inserts, but it doesn't look like
> enough rubber to make a whole lot of difference to me. Besides, the damn
> handgrips are pretty expensive just to try to try something that may or
> may not work.
Grip Puppies!
Posted by James Poe on August 21, 2009, 4:11 pm
I would advise starting a light weight-lifting routine. Concentrate
on range of motion. Nothing to drastic. Even old-fashioned
jumping-jacks, shoulder rolls and the like will help. If you allready
tried this, never mind.
Posted by Brafield on August 25, 2009, 10:11 pm
On Aug 21, 1:11 pm, cecieb...@webtv.net (James Poe) wrote:
> I would advise starting a light weight-lifting routine. Concentrate
> on range of motion. Nothing to drastic. Even old-fashioned
> jumping-jacks, shoulder rolls and the like will help. If you allready
> tried this, never mind.
Above all, don't ignore it, and don't "Man" it.
This thread reminded me of some research in the UK over 35 years ago
into "white finger diesease". One researcher stepped outside the
usual factory machine / hand-tool paradigm, and went and tested
speedway riders -- I wish I had kept the article. He found a
significant proportion of speedway riders had chronic incurable (ie,
too late for exercises and intervention) white-finger disease, but
nobody was talking about it. Whether newer frames and engines have
made things better in thelast 30 years I have no idea.
Posted by little man upon the stair on August 25, 2009, 11:15 pm
> Whether newer frames and engines have
> made things better in thelast 30 years I have no idea.
The basic arrangement of nerves going through the wrists and the palms
of your hands hasn't changed in the last 40,000 years.
The problem of numb hands on the bars has little to do with frame and
engine design. What matters is how the rider hangs on to the grips and
where his weight rests.
Read up on "carpal tunnel syndrome" and "guyon's canal syndrome" and
you will be enlightened, grasshopper.
Keep your fingers curled and keep your weight off the palms of your
hands and your wrists as much as possible and ride pain free as I do.
Posted by The Older Gentleman on August 26, 2009, 2:16 am
> The problem of numb hands on the bars has little to do with frame and
> engine design.
You idiot. Think of the difference in vibration between, say, an old
Brit single and a modern balanced four, or better still, a rotary.
Which do you think will vibrate worse and aggravate the condition.
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> presume from the vibration in the handlebars. I have a 2-cyl cruiser, and
> it doesn't seem to vibrate a whole lot to me, but my hands sure feel it.
> Wearing gloves helps some, but not nearly enough.
> Anyone else have this problem?
> Any suggestions?
> Someone put some all steel custom grips on my bike. I thought about
> changing them to some with the rubber inserts, but it doesn't look like
> enough rubber to make a whole lot of difference to me. Besides, the damn
> handgrips are pretty expensive just to try to try something that may or
> may not work.