I have experienced no,none, nada numbness on the Bosco Bars <http://simplecycle-marc.blogspot.com/2012/06/rivendells-bosco-bars.html>I use with stoker knobs. I've had a problem with hand numbness on everything else for years.
Marc On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 4:03:57 PM UTC-4, Mojo wrote: > > Recently over on the Surly Long Haul Trucker list, there was a thread on > bike setup and comfort. The original poster was complaining about hand > numbness and most folks wrote in with the advice to raise the bars and move > the saddle aft to take pressure off the hands. I didn't have any good > further advice for the OP. But I do have an associated observation. > After riding low-handlebar racing type bikes from 1976-2001, I have been > riding more Rivendell-influenced bikes ever since, with my handlebars very > near saddle height and saddle now set back 1-2cm behind KOPS. I have always > had very minor numb hand issues. I just usually shake them out and they are > fine for several more miles or even hours. But I have observed over the > last few years that my numb hands seem to occur most often when climbing, > less so riding the flats, and never descending. This observation seems to > run counter to the idea that it is the extra weight on the hands that > creates numbness. > > Again its just a minor problem for me. I nearly always wear gloves. My > bars are all thinly wrapped in cork/fake cork. My reach is fairly generous. > Now of course on a loop ride I will be spending much more time climbing > than descending and maybe the most amout of time overall riding on mostly > flat roads. But if the theory that more weight on the hands leads to > numbness, why am I not feeling it at the bottom of my descents instead of > on the climbs? I really don't even have an hypothesis at this point. > Thoughts? > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/OQPRftAk2ssJ. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
