New Bike :-) Sore Hands :-(

jacksonrj

Hi

Got a new orange 5 am with fox 36 talas 160s, easton haven bars, thomson stem, and the bike is ripping hell out of my hands. The palms of my hands are on fire after a half hour or so of riding. Ive got 2 other bikes (1 ht & 1 fs) which are fine on my mits. Have tried 3 different pairs of grips but same issue. Will upgrade my gloves at some stage, but was wondering if others have suffered this issue and what theyve done to rectify it?

Cheers

Daz555

Riding position? Do you have more weight on your hands on this bike? Are levers comfortable?

JonnyN

What's the reach like compared to the other bikes you have? Sounds like you have too much weight on your hands.

jacksonrj

Leavers are ok. The 5 is 3cm longer from center of seatpost to center of bars. The seat is same height from the floor. The talas at 120 makes the bars 1cm higher, and the talas at 160 makes it around 8cm higher than my other fs.

homers_double

Have you tried rotating the bars foward, sometimes risers can cause problems.

bails87

I had this when I changed from a 100mm ot 150mm hardtail (rebas and Revelations respectively). I lowered the PSI by about 5 and that seemed to sort it. Maybe it was the forks bedding in too, getting more supple for the small bumps?

jacksonrj

Yes have lowered psi down from 55 to 45 and it was better. Maybe it will improve as the forks wear in

CharlieH

Ironically, I changed bars and stem on my FS and had a similar experience. I played around with the bar position and found rotating it back slightly stopped the problem. It sounds like it could just be a set up issue as others have mentioned.

CharlieH

jacksonrj wrote:

Yes have lowered psi down from 55 to 45 and it was better. Maybe it will improve as the forks wear in

What tyre width? I run 2.35 highrollers and run them at around 25-30 psi. 45 seems high if you're off road

jacksonrj

Sorry the 45 psi was for the talas. My maxis are at 2.5bar which is 36psi so i could try deflating them a touch. I'll try rotating the bars as well, cheers

CharlieH

No probs, thought it sounded high

ddraver

I would suggest moving everything you can get your hands on before buying something new - have a look at a "generic bike set up" website and maybe try starting from scratch again putting everything in a Neutral setting - if not you can always go back.....

CharlieH

One tip that seemed to work for me is putting the end of your elbow against the tip of the saddle. The "general" rule is that your finger tips should end up in the middle of your stem. For my HT this is spot on. For my FS my seat is a touch further forward to allow more room when I'm off the back of the saddle

It is only a general rule but might be worth using it as a guide

jake103

mostly you need to check the height adjustment of your seat some, if you have adjusted for more height then chance is there that you are leaning on it so that you might be getting sore hand.

Northwind

Have you considered swapping the bars off one of your other bikes? Will help eliminate things.

Sore hands can also mean bad fork response- poor initial reaction or spiky response to hits both put more stress on your hands. But if your forks are working close to right neither of those should be an issue. New forks or old?

jacksonrj

Yes new forks/bike. Will also try seat adjustment, cheers chaps

Thewaylander

Yikes since i weight about ten stone i have a smidge over 20psi in my talas lol

jacksonrj

Ah ok. Im 12st so will try going even lower, cheers