New rider! Sore hands/wrists.

[Brandi]

Yea I would go get fitted again. YOu will be happier in the long run. I am very well fitted but still get numbness. It is what it is sometimes yu need to just move around a bit and work on posture and what not.

[Savra]

When I first got my bike I had the same problem. My LBS tilted my saddle up slightly and the problem was solved. That may help you but a fitter would be the best.

[nscrbug]

Yea I would go get fitted again. YOu will be happier in the long run. I am very well fitted but still get numbness. It is what it is sometimes yu need to just move around a bit and work on posture and what not.

X2! I too, was well-fitted and still experience hand pain and numbness. I personally feel that it is one of (if not THE) trickiest of issues to resolve. It requires a LOT of experimentation with saddle position, bar/stem position, glove type, bar tape thickness, hand/wrist position...not to mention intensive core strengthening and stabilization. All of these factors play a role (to some extent) in hand comfort on the bike...and it's difficult to get them ALL perfect at the same time.

[Cataboo]

That's another thing to look at - is your seat uncomfortable & tilted down to compensate for that - and causing you to slide forward and put more pressure on the wrists. if that's the case, flatten out your seat & measure your sit bones to find which saddle works for you.

I push my seats all the way back and keep them tilted ever so slightly down... if I tilt them up or put them flat, the nose presses into my tender bits which don't like that. If I tilt it down more than ever so slightly, it causes me to slide forward off the seat & put more pressure on my wrists - more pressure on my wrists means numb hands.

I think just getting my core stronger helped a lot for my hands - I still get numbness, but it's gradual over a long ride and I can usually move around or loosen my gloves or whatever to deal with it.


The other thing that helped a lot for my hands was when I stopped riding aluminum. carbon fork & carbon seat stays helped a lot for my wrists - but a steel, titanium or carbon frame just works a ton better for me. Carbon handlebars work better than aluminum ones which I confirmed the other day on a long ride on big red - I'd cheaped out and put flat aluminum handlebars on that bike and my hands went numb pretty quickly even though it's a steel frame.

Mountain biking, I use ergo grips.