Pain in hood part of hands, pins & needles in hands

[anonymous-user]

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[TwistingMyMelon]

1. Make sure you aren't placing too much weight on your hands, is your saddle pointed down at front?

2. Buy some decent gloves with thick padding, some gloves have none, others lots

3. Look at fitting some bar tape that will damper vibrations and fit some gel pads underneath

4. Hand strengthening exercises might help, the strength gripper things help, Yoga helped my hand strength increase lots as I did positions to hold all my body weight on my hands

5. Accept that long descents are hard on your hands, I went to Wales yesterday and my shoulders and hands ache more than my legs today from the long downhills.

Hope that helps, when I swapped form MTB to Road bikes years ago, my back twinged like mad at first, it was just my body just getting used to it

[TwilightJohnny]

Can you show us a picure of the bike so we can see how it's set up?

[TwilightJohnny]

Also, if the front of the bike is skipping and hopping around check that the headset isn't loose. This can cause a lot of vibration which won't help at all. Also check the front wheel bearings for play - try to rock the wheel from side to side to see if there's any movement.

Edited by TwilightJohnny on Monday 26th June 20:48

[SteveSteveson]

TwistingMyMelon said:

4. Hand strengthening exercises might help, the strength gripper things help, Yoga helped my hand strength increase lots as I did positions to hold all my body weight on my hands

And core strength. Core strength will help with with lots of stuff.

[TwilightJohnny]

Also, not sure what you mean by this:

anonymous said:

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[TwilightJohnny]

That would probably make the numbness worse if it's caused by too much weight on your hands and forearms..

[JustinF]

how firmly do you grip the bars? steering is mostly done with your knees and hips allowing you to let the front end float in a loose grip 90% of the time.

[Black can man]

I'm 6'1 & on all of my bikes i have put a shorter stem of 100mm on all of them i found that this helped when i kept getting Pins & needles.


I only seem to suffer with it now is when the surface of the road is bobbly when i'm going to fast.

[bigdom]

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Put them all back in, make sure the hoods are in the correct location and move the saddle forward 5mm. If that doesn't help, you may as already suggested, require a shorter stem.

https://www.stevehoggbikefitting.com/bikefit/2011/...

[Matt_N]

You shouldn't be moving the saddle fore or aft to take account of reach issues, it's to set up your knee over pedal position, if you are comfortable in regards to legs / knees then leave the saddle as is.

[TheInternet]

Make sure your tyre pressures aren't too high either. Mine were excessive when starting out on road bikes, like most seem to.

[HoHoHo]

anonymous said:

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Interesting link, thanks

I also suffer from time-to-time from pins and needles in my hands and have my pressures up to 100psi on both front and back..........

I'm going to have a play and hope it helps!