pins and needles...
cycling_simon
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i have recently fitted some straight bars to my girlfriends road bike as she found the drop bars a little too much for a beginer.
we went cycling earlier this week and after 40miles+ she was experiencing pins and needles in her two smallest fingers. she still had the slight tingling/numbness a few days later. i had lent her my cycling gloves but i think they were just too big to have much affect.
can any one sugest some good gloves? with being students we are looking at the lower end of the market.
would a change in bars, height, grips, or anything else help with the issue?
many thanks
simon
we went cycling earlier this week and after 40miles+ she was experiencing pins and needles in her two smallest fingers. she still had the slight tingling/numbness a few days later. i had lent her my cycling gloves but i think they were just too big to have much affect.
can any one sugest some good gloves? with being students we are looking at the lower end of the market.
would a change in bars, height, grips, or anything else help with the issue?
many thanks
simon
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Either....get some bar-ends, and some decent gloves/mitts (a cycling essential anyhow), or, put the drops back-on and have them in a high position for starters until your gf gets used to them.
One benefit of drops is that they give you a multitude of different hand positions which are good for both hand/arm comfort but back as well.
Bar-ends allow a lesser degree of change but are better than just having straight bars.
Thick grips will also help.
Cheap mitts? Had this type years ago when I was a student, lasted for years, including several plasma-planing incidents!
Can't fail at this price, cheaper than I bought them in the 80's
Better in hot weather than the modern synthetic versions.
http://www.mikedyason.com/productDesc.a ... duct_id=CM0
