I stopped to ask my "bike guy" about this at the beginning of my season too! First thing suggested was the position of my handgrips -- I have a Specialized Expedition, and the handgrips are not "round" they're sort of egg shaped. The "flat" part needed to be horizontal -- parallel to the ground (sure confused DH with that when discussing it with another new Expedition owner we met lately!) AND I needed to not lean so hard! A subsequent visit had them adjusting my handlebars some -- but that wasn't so much for my hands as my butt! (crunches after dark -- not the Nestle kind) had taken care of my hands already...
Something to try, though: do NOT wrap your thumb around the bar. You can't grip too tightly if you do this, and then you'll know if that's the problem!
Karen in Boise
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07-14-2006, 08:07 AM #4
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