Hand Numbness?
Road Warrior
Joined: Dec 2005
Posts: 1,950
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From: Colorado Springs, CO
RE: Hand Numbness?
The most common cause of hand numbness is compression of the median nerve in the carpel tunnel. The answer is actually pretty simple, and it's free.
Ergonomics.
Since you have short low drag bars, I would guess that you're leaning on the hand grips. Unless you have extra long gorilla arms. The natural position that people fall in to is to extend the wrists and lean on the palms of the hands.
Imagine that you have a ruler strapped to the back of your arm that extends past the knuckles. Never let your knuckles touch the ruler.
If that becomes uncomfortable, you might consider new bars that place your hands in a more favorable postition.
Ergonomics.
Since you have short low drag bars, I would guess that you're leaning on the hand grips. Unless you have extra long gorilla arms. The natural position that people fall in to is to extend the wrists and lean on the palms of the hands.
Imagine that you have a ruler strapped to the back of your arm that extends past the knuckles. Never let your knuckles touch the ruler.
If that becomes uncomfortable, you might consider new bars that place your hands in a more favorable postition.
Road Master
Joined: Jul 2007
Posts: 910
Likes: 1
From: Powhatan/Staunton, VA
RE: Hand Numbness?
It took about 3 minutes to get use to-can't imagine riding long days without it. Yep-fits right into your palm. You can ride and stretch your hand wide open, use your thumb for awhile to switch position, etc.
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Road Master
Joined: Apr 2006
Posts: 763
Likes: 1
From: North Edwards, CA
RE: Hand Numbness?
Anubisss is right on with the throttle rocker for long trips anyway. Also, Kuryakyn (not sure if I spelled it right) makes some grips called iso grips. I have some on my softy & they made a BIG difference. Stock grips & stock seats suck.
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The Schlong Man
Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 3,772
Likes: 4
From: Nantucket
RE: Hand Numbness?
If you are new to riding then this is something that happens that you'll need to deal with for a while. Eventually you will get used to riding more. You will become more comfortable and the numbness will go away. When I first started riding not too long ago my fingers would go numb, then my hand, then my whole arm. very disconcerting. It gradually becomes less and less and now I just get a little tingle in a couple of fingeres every now and then. Shakes right out.
