numb fingers

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Hi,
Enjoyed a pleasant 85 mile ride yesterday, but noticed left hand
little finger and ring finger had numbness in them. Still partially
numb now 13 hours later.
I used Specialized BG gloves, and have done for a few years without
problems, and ride a Dawes Giro 300.

Anybody experience anything similar and know how to combat this.

Thanks in advance

Roy

 

[Robert]

<[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> Enjoyed a pleasant 85 mile ride yesterday, but noticed left hand
> little finger and ring finger had numbness in them. Still partially
> numb now 13 hours later.
> I used Specialized BG gloves, and have done for a few years without
> problems, and ride a Dawes Giro 300.
>
> Anybody experience anything similar and know how to combat this.
>
> Thanks in advance
>

Do you keep your hands on the hoods of the brakes/shifters so that your
wrists are straight. Or do you hold the top of the handles bars.

> Roy

 

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On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 10:45:22 +0100, "Robert" <[email protected]> wrote:

>
><[email protected]> wrote in message
>news:[email protected]...
>> Hi,
>> Enjoyed a pleasant 85 mile ride yesterday, but noticed left hand
>> little finger and ring finger had numbness in them. Still partially
>> numb now 13 hours later.
>> I used Specialized BG gloves, and have done for a few years without
>> problems, and ride a Dawes Giro 300.
>>
>> Anybody experience anything similar and know how to combat this.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>
>Do you keep your hands on the hoods of the brakes/shifters so that your
>wrists are straight. Or do you hold the top of the handles bars.
>
>> Roy
>
I vary position, from holding the hoods, holding the top and holding
the top bend.

Roy

 

[Simon Brooke]

in message <[email protected]>,
[email protected] ('[email protected]') wrote:

> Hi,
> Enjoyed a pleasant 85 mile ride yesterday, but noticed left hand
> little finger and ring finger had numbness in them. Still partially
> numb now 13 hours later.
> I used Specialized BG gloves, and have done for a few years without
> problems, and ride a Dawes Giro 300.
>
> Anybody experience anything similar and know how to combat this.

Twenty years ago I used to get this badly, now very rarely.

Carbon forks are better than steel and much better than aluminium ones.
'Grab-on' type foam grips, or gel-backed handlebar tape, is better than
flat tape. I've found the Specialized BG glove particularly /bad/,
counter-intuitively, and prefer Altura ones with much less padding.

Moving your hands frequently to different positions definitely helps.

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[Just zis Guy, you know?]

At Sat, 09 Jul 2005 11:55:22 +0100, message
<[email protected]> was posted by Simon
Brooke <[email protected]>, including some, all or none of the
following:

>Carbon forks are better than steel and much better than aluminium ones.

I didn't know you could even get alu forks. I find that raked steel
forks are fine all day, rigid MTB forks pound you to death, and modern
sus-forks, even quite cheap ones (cf. Giant Boulder), are actually
rather good.

>'Grab-on' type foam grips, or gel-backed handlebar tape, is better than
>flat tape. I've found the Specialized BG glove particularly /bad/,
>counter-intuitively, and prefer Altura ones with much less padding.

Absolutely. A pair of leather-palm track mitts and perhaps some light
padding of the bars. Gel gloves will tend to exert pressure on the
soft tissues of the hand, very bad news (just like gel saddles and the
soft tissues Down There[1]).

[1] I know all about **** pain, having just undergone qbccyre thvqrq
unrzbeeubvqny negrel yvtngvba ;-)


Guy
--
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"To every complex problem there is a solution which is
simple, neat and wrong" - HL Mencken

 

[vernon]

> Carbon forks are better than steel and much better than aluminium ones.
> 'Grab-on' type foam grips, or gel-backed handlebar tape, is better than
> flat tape. I've found the Specialized BG glove particularly /bad/,
> counter-intuitively, and prefer Altura ones with much less padding.

Will be sticking with the steel forks on the Galaxy....but the gel backed
tape
is about to be installed. I'm using Altura string backed gloves and have
only
just suffered from the problem for the first time.
>
> Moving your hands frequently to different positions definitely helps.

Mindful of the problem having read about it a week or so ago, I tried that
strategy and it failed me. I'm having a break from Audaxing this weekend
and this will give a further opportunity for the problem to subside.

 

[wafflycat]

"Just zis Guy, you know?" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
> [1] I know all about **** pain, having just undergone qbccyre thvqrq
> unrzbeeubvqny negrel yvtngvba ;-)
>

Uneq obvyrq rttf, pbyq naq puvyyrq va sevqtr, nccyvrq gb argure ertvbaf pna
or fbbguvat...

Cheers, helen s

 

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A carbon fork etc. will make no difference, I think.

The culprit is pressure across the very base of the palm. This presses
on the nerves. Padded gloves can make that worse sometimes.

 

[vernon]

> Anybody experience anything similar and know how to combat this.

Found a cure though it's not recommended. I no longer seem to have numb
fingers since
closing a car door on the affected hand. The pain from the bruising has
overwhelmed
the tingling .........

 

[SpellmanT7]

<[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Hi,
> Enjoyed a pleasant 85 mile ride yesterday, but noticed left hand
> little finger and ring finger had numbness in them. Still partially
> numb now 13 hours later.
> I used Specialized BG gloves, and have done for a few years without
> problems, and ride a Dawes Giro 300.
>
> Anybody experience anything similar and know how to combat this.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Roy

Scarily enough, I enjoyed a 84 mile ride today and am experiencing the same
problem for the first time.

I blame it somewhat on the boneshaker I was riding. I picked it up after my
Trek developed a severe problem with the rear derailer overnight. The crux
of the matter - my friend told me on no account was I to lower the pressure
of the tyres. He said they were set "As I like them" and I was forced to
just grab and go without complaint.

When you owe someone a days labour in return for their enthusiastic help on
the repair of your own home, it's not exactly polite to debate such minor
subjects. Cue numb fingers - exactly as you described.