taping a handlebar

Brian Huntley said:

Andrew Muzi posted:

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Does this help?
http://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfromthepast/THUMBS.JPG

Holey inner tubes, Batman! Those are actual thumbnail jpegs!

Dear Brian,

Your perfect pun leaves me consumed with envy.

I bite my thumb at you.

Carl Fogel

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But Andrew, whose overweight hands are we seeing in the pictures?
None of the three shown positions is grasping the bar as though
riding. Who holds a bar with the thumb parallel to the bar, sort of
open hand style. For that reason I would say "This doesn't help!"

My right hand is indeed huge, but healing well.

--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

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A Muzi <[email hidden]> writes:
http://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfromthepast/THUMBS.JPG

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But Andrew, whose overweight hands are we seeing in the pictures?

And I guess I was lucky. Could have been worse:
http://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfromthepast/NOSISSY2.JPG

--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

Andrew Muzi writes:

http://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfromthepast/THUMBS.JPG

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But Andrew, whose overweight hands are we seeing in the pictures?

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And I guess I was lucky. Could have been worse:
http://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfromthepast/NOSISSY2.JPG

Ouch! How inflamatory! Gute Besserung, as they say over there.

Jobst

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A Muzi said:

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I think you have a different topology than others. My thumbs point
the same way with respect to the handlebar whether on top or on the
drops. Visualize stretching the bar out straight and I think
you'll see that it is the same direction. I am sure there are
handlebar shapes where this is not the case, but for conventional
drop bars, it's the same relative hand position whether on the tops
or drops, the most used positions.

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Does this help?

http://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfromthepast/THUMBS.JPG

But Andrew, whose overweight hands are we seeing in the pictures?
None of the three shown positions is grasping the bar as though
riding. Who holds a bar with the thumb parallel to the bar, sort of
open hand style. For that reason I would say "This doesn't help!"

In November I discovered that holding the bars in this way is a Bad
Idea. I hit a bad bit of road and came off. I didn't do much damage on
hitting the road but my left thumb went into the angle between the bars
and the stem and sustained a compound comminuted fracture, compromising
the distal IP joint. It still is not right and may well never be.

Anthony

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Anthony Campbell said:

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> I think you have a different topology than others. My thumbs
> point the same way with respect to the handlebar whether on top
> or on the drops. Visualize stretching the bar out straight and I
> think you'll see that it is the same direction. I am sure there
> are handlebar shapes where this is not the case, but for
> conventional drop bars, it's the same relative hand position
> whether on the tops or drops, the most used positions.

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Does this help?

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http://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfromthepast/THUMBS.JPG

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

But Andrew, whose overweight hands are we seeing in the pictures?
None of the three shown positions is grasping the bar as though
riding. Who holds a bar with the thumb parallel to the bar, sort
of open hand style. For that reason I would say "This doesn't
help!"

Quoted message said:

In November I discovered that holding the bars in this way is a Bad
Idea. I hit a bad bit of road and came off. I didn't do much
damage on hitting the road but my left thumb went into the angle
between the bars and the stem and sustained a compound comminuted
fracture, compromising the distal IP joint. It still is not right
and may well never be.

That you had this unfortunate experience does not mean bicycling need
done with thumbs parallel to the index finger as in thumb-less
mittens. I think you'll find that for athletically active bicycling,
this is not the way to grasp handlebars. How do you ride on the
drops? In that mode, with only the heel of the hand on the bar, you
could easily have an end-over fall an sustain far worse injuries. How
do you grasp the brakes on drop bars? This is likewise, not a
practical grip.

Bicycling can be hazardous and most of us have had some experience
from which we could draw the conclusion that one should not ride bike.

Ride bike!

Jobst Brandt
[email hidden]

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Anthony Campbell writes:

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Quoted message said:

In November I discovered that holding the bars in this way is a Bad
Idea. I hit a bad bit of road and came off. I didn't do much
damage on hitting the road but my left thumb went into the angle
between the bars and the stem and sustained a compound comminuted
fracture, compromising the distal IP joint. It still is not right
and may well never be.

That you had this unfortunate experience does not mean bicycling need
done with thumbs parallel to the index finger as in thumb-less
mittens. I think you'll find that for athletically active bicycling,
this is not the way to grasp handlebars. How do you ride on the
drops? In that mode, with only the heel of the hand on the bar, you
could easily have an end-over fall an sustain far worse injuries. How
do you grasp the brakes on drop bars? This is likewise, not a
practical grip.

Bicycling can be hazardous and most of us have had some experience
from which we could draw the conclusion that one should not ride bike.

Ride bike!

Jobst Brandt
[email hidden]

I agree that one shouldn't stop cycling because of possible injury
(though my wife thinks differently). Riding with the thumbs lying along
the bars seems natural when one is fairly relaxed but I think in future
I'd try to keep my thumbs under the bars rather than on top. This is not
as in thumbless mittens, however.

Anthony

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Dear Carl: You nailed it. --Roy Zipris

Roy Zipris said:

Dear Carl: You nailed it. --Roy Zipris

That why you /clipped/ his quote?

(Sorry 🙂 )

Bill "filing it away now" S.