finger pains

james1975 · May 2007

When I go on longer rides I have begun to get pain in the lower part of the fingers of both hands.On a recent trip to Wales the pain became almost unbearable forcing me to cut the ride short.

I have recently changed bike but the problem persists.

Any idea what it might be? gloves / grips?

Cheers

James

davepiggott13 · May 2007

Do your fingertips go blue-ish or numb? Any pins and needles? Could be circulation?

rikk · May 2007

Ergon grips solved mine and a friends numb/tingles problem, also is you wear a pack make sure the chest strap is tight as you don't want the straps digging into your shoulders.

For gloves any of the spesh BG gloves are fab.

.........Rikk

Unknown · May 2007

Maybe get some spech gloves and big grip liek oury ones.

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Unknown · May 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by james1975

When I go on longer rides I have begun to get pain in the lower part of the fingers of both hands.On a recent trip to Wales the pain became almost unbearable forcing me to cut the ride short.

I have recently changed bike but the problem persists.

Any idea what it might be? gloves / grips?

Cheers

James
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I have a similar thing during long technical descents. I get what I guess is muscle pump on the muscles on my fingers just above the knuckle. It isnt because of braking cos i use my index finger for that and it doesnt hurt.

I.ve got new grips but thats not made a difference. My gloves are thin, which i thought would be good as i have "office hands", with stubby fingers [V] so maybe i'll try some gloves with more padding.

I'm also gonna try and strengthen my fingers up too, cos maybe i'm just being a wimp. Although I think its quite common.

For me its definately nothing to do with nerves/circulation, just gripping the bars.

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Aux1 · June 2007

Let me try to explain, first off you should have ok brakes and brake with one finger and hold the bars with three for stronger grip. I noticed I held my bars with the palm and tips of the fingers only, and then they started to hurt. Now I try to "wrap" all the finger knuckles around the grips, without any loose space in between, and it's lots better, I can go down faster and brake harder with less hand pain.

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Unknown · June 2007

Could be grips or the position of your levers causing a problem (if they're too far up causing your fingers to overstretch to get to them). Try changing the position of the levers first cos that doesn't cost anything, and if it doesn't work then maybe try new grips.

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