Looking for recommendations for a set of grips (Comfort, shock absorption)

[Sanjay Punjab]

I have a trek 820 and frequently after my rides my wrists are killing
me.
I want to replace my stock grips with some better ones. Please
recommend a set of grips with superior comfort and most importantly
shock absorption.
My bike is used for communiting, not racing or off-roading.
thanks

[Rick Onanian]

On 5 Aug 2003 12:59:21 -0700, Sanjay Punjab > wrote:

> I have a trek 820 and frequently after my rides my wrists are killing
> me.

I don't know what grips are good and which are bad; but
I can suggest cycling gloves and bar-ends. Bar-ends give
you more positions to put your hands, so you can constantly
switch around.

If your wrists hurt, you probably won't do better with
different grips, as it's probably a fit and position
problem. Do you feel like your wrists are bent too far,
and your hands are not in line with your forearms? You
may need a simple adjustment, bar ends, or just a change
in your position.

> thanks
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Rick Onanian

[Tom Keats]

In article >,
(Sanjay Punjab) writes:
> I have a trek 820 and frequently after my rides my wrists are killing
> me.
> I want to replace my stock grips with some better ones. Please
> recommend a set of grips with superior comfort and most importantly
> shock absorption.
> My bike is used for communiting, not racing or off-roading.
> thanks

There was a time when I, too, was beginning to suffer from
wrist pains. What worked for me was to rotate my brake
levers upward to between 8 o'clock and 9 o'clock.

The typical advice is to ride with 1 or 2 fingers kept
hooked around the brake levers. But now I just loosely
hook my thumbs under the grips and let all my fingers
rest lazily across the brake levers, so my hands almost
lie flat across the grips and levers. This way, there's
no clenching, so fatigue in the wrists is obviated. And
a looser grip means less transmission of shocks and bumps
from the bike to the wrists. Meanwhile, the brakes are
still readily at-hand.

One thing that kills wrists is slumping one's weight on them.
Gotta keep them perked up, like a typist or a pianist does.


cheers,
Tom

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[Paul Bielec]

You should definitively buy cycling gloves. A friend of mine had same
problem and wanted to change his grips but the guy at the LBS told him that
he should buy gloves instead. He did and the problem is gone.
I have both, the gloves and the bar-ends on my MTB. The bar-ends, in
addition to be a must on steep cross-coutry climbs, are very usefull on long
flat bike path rides as they allow me to position my hands differently when
I don't need to have them constantly on the brake levers.


"Sanjay Punjab" > wrote in message
om...
> I have a trek 820 and frequently after my rides my wrists are killing
> me.
> I want to replace my stock grips with some better ones. Please
> recommend a set of grips with superior comfort and most importantly
> shock absorption.
> My bike is used for communiting, not racing or off-roading.
> thanks