bar ends?

To tie this back into bar ends - this is what I replaced on the surly - riser bars + bar ends. Mostly I think the bars were just too wide.

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Originally Posted by sarahspins

Another vote for Ergons :) I used them with "some" success before I did finally replace my bar

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I had my bike fitting today, and one of the many changes was to replace my stock 7.6 FX grips to Ergon grips. My hands started feeling better immediately :) When he suggested them, I couldn't help but to remember the various positive comments on this forum about them, so it made the decision easy to make.

Thanks for all the great ideas! I may have to take a trip to my LBS, have them fix my pedals (take the floppy plastic foot things off) and play touch and feel with their handlebar/grip/bar end options. The configuration of my 7.6 is wonderful, I no longer have the back/leg issues that I had riding my 20 yo mountain bike, it's down to hand issues now, which i'm hoping will be an easy fix trying out some of these great suggestions :)

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Originally Posted by GrassyRidge

Thanks for all the great ideas! I may have to take a trip to my LBS, have them fix my pedals (take the floppy plastic foot things off) and play touch and feel with their handlebar/grip/bar end options. The configuration of my 7.6 is wonderful, I no longer have the back/leg issues that I had riding my 20 yo mountain bike, it's down to hand issues now, which i'm hoping will be an easy fix trying out some of these great suggestions :)

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Other than the grips rotating, what hand issues are you having? numbness at all? One thing to make sure of is that your wrist isn't bent back towards you - you want your shifters in sort of a wrist neutral position, so you don't have to bend your wrists back towards you when using them.