Numb hands while riding
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Numb hands while riding
Postby Shelby35 » Mon Oct 13, 2014 8:52 pm
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Re: Numb hands while riding
Postby KGB » Tue Oct 14, 2014 9:46 am
Assuming you're changing hand grip position, even slightly, on a regular basis you shouldnt get numb hands. A common cause is too much weight on your arms/hands which can be caused by a tilted seat constantly pushing you forward.
Give us some more details about the bike and you - style, size, setup/position etc.
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Re: Numb hands while riding
Postby outnabike » Tue Oct 14, 2014 10:39 am
I dont' know what you work at, but some times its just a bit of time required to build up strength if you work in an office.
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Re: Numb hands while riding
Postby Shelby35 » Tue Oct 14, 2014 12:00 pm
The seat position is pretty level yer changing grip position seems to be right hand more than left.KGB wrote:Is your seat pointing nose down?
Assuming you're changing hand grip position, even slightly, on a regular basis you shouldnt get numb hands. A common cause is too much weight on your arms/hands which can be caused by a tilted seat constantly pushing you forward.
Give us some more details about the bike and you - style, size, setup/position etc.
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Re: Numb hands while riding
Postby Shelby35 » Tue Oct 14, 2014 12:02 pm
No don't work in a office i am a chef. Have only been back on the bike for 5 weeks will give it some more time and see what happens.outnabike wrote:Some good points above.
I dont' know what you work at, but some times its just a bit of time required to build up strength if you work in an office.
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Re: Numb hands while riding
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Re: Numb hands while riding
Postby Tim » Tue Oct 14, 2014 12:45 pm
I do and it seems that on-road vibration aggravates it. More so than weight on my hands.
I ride several different bikes. The least troublesome is my steel frame and forks touring bike with wide, lower pressured 35mm tyres. Very little road vibration is transferred to my hands and wrists. I have a thick layer of cork bar tape wrapped around the drop bars. I don't wear gloves on tour, often riding down in the drops and no problems.
The other bikes are a mix of carbon and aluminium frames, all fitted with 23-28mm, higher pressure tyres. One flat-bar bike provides an upright seated position with very little weight on my hands. It still causes numbness, even wearing gloves. I presume caused by vibration through the narrow harder tyres.
Regularly moving hand position, flexing and shaking my hands, padded gloves and bar tape, engaging core muscles and most importantly wider (25-28mm for road bikes) tyres helps a little bit, but not much. Try lowering the front wheel pressure to a lower but safe pressure.
Generally I just put up with it.
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Re: Numb hands while riding
Postby BrisBoy » Tue Oct 14, 2014 1:09 pm
Good luck Shelby.
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Re: Numb hands while riding
Postby wombatK » Tue Oct 14, 2014 1:17 pm
much weight going forward - and that will give you numb hands. To fix this, you need to move the seat
position away from the handlebars. Best way is to move the seat back on its rails. If it's already at its
backward limit, you could try a longer headstem.
A good quality glove with gel inserts, gel handlebar tape or double-wrapped tape can also help relieve
the pressure on your hands.
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Re: Numb hands while riding
Postby tcdev » Tue Oct 14, 2014 1:30 pm
In the past I had my seat raised to alleviate soreness in the front of my knees. That's abated, but now I experience some soreness on the top of my knees. I suspect I need to have the seat raised just a little higher.
Hopefully once these issues have been sorted I will have been 'fitted' by trial-and-error sufficiently to enjoy many more years of cycling.
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Re: Numb hands while riding
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Re: Numb hands while riding
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Re: Numb hands while riding
Postby outnabike » Tue Oct 14, 2014 8:38 pm
Just as a try, why not tape some foam temporarily on the bars for a trial? Go along it with black tape and no one but the whole forum will know you done it....
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Re: Numb hands while riding
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Re: Numb hands while riding
Postby KGB » Tue Oct 14, 2014 9:02 pm
Are you trying to say you "locked" your elbows out? That's hyper extension. Hyper flexion would make it near impossible to remain on a bicycle without smashing your face or chest into the stem!earlybird wrote:When I first started riding I had a bad habit of riding with hyper-flexed elbows, which increased the pressure on my hands. Focusing on riding with slightly bent elbows has decreased the frequency of numbness. I also notice a difference with tyre pressure.
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Re: Numb hands while riding
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Re: Numb hands while riding
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Re: Numb hands while riding
Postby wombatK » Fri Oct 17, 2014 10:32 am
Nerves don't toughen up with more wear ... they get even more aggravated. It's worth looking at the fitShelby35 wrote:Brought some gel gloves was heaps better still a little numb might have to do more klms.
issues (seat, headstem positions), as well as regularly varying your hand position while riding.
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Re: Numb hands while riding
Postby Shelby35 » Fri Oct 17, 2014 11:13 am
Thanks will dowombatK wrote:Nerves don't toughen up with more wear ... they get even more aggravated. It's worth looking at the fitShelby35 wrote:Brought some gel gloves was heaps better still a little numb might have to do more klms.
issues (seat, headstem positions), as well as regularly varying your hand position while riding.
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Re: Numb hands while riding
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Re: Numb hands while riding
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Re: Numb hands while riding
Postby kb » Sun Oct 19, 2014 10:33 pm
Huh. This happened to me for the first time today. Pretty bumpy section and lots of descending probably contributed.Farmer Elvis wrote:I find that fingerless gloves can give me problems, they ride up and push on the v between the fingers
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