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.



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