Pins & needles

[RustyMTB]

I'm noticing this in my right wrist lately. It generally comes on about ten miles in to a ride.90% of my riding is longish trail stuff, sat down. I haven't made any changes to the contact points recently, so I'm interested in advice on what I guess is adjusting bars, saddle etc. aimed at relieving pressue in my arms. Bike is a Jam2 large & I'm 6' tall if that is useful, the only change over the stock bike is Renthal bars, 30mm rise & cut to 760mm.

 

[VWsurfbum]

I'm noticing this in my right wrist lately. It generally comes on about ten miles in to a ride.90% of my riding is longish trail stuff, sat down. I haven't made any changes to the contact points recently, so I'm interested in advice on what I guess is adjusting bars, saddle etc. aimed at relieving pressue in my arms. Bike is a Jam2 large & I'm 6' tall if that is useful, the only change over the stock bike is Renthal bars, 30mm rise & cut to 760mm.

Alloy bars?
I (personally) found Renthal bars to be too harsh on the hands and arms. maybe look at a more compliant bar like the One-Up ones?

 

[RustyMTB]

They are. Maybe I should put the stock ones back on for a comparison?

 

[irie]

They are. Maybe I should put the stock ones back on for a comparison?

I think that would be a good move.

 

[RustyMTB]

It's at this point I moan about grips, shifters, stem. brakes, droppers all having different bolts.

 

[VWsurfbum]

what you need is a Ti upgrade kit.

 

[steve_sordy]

@RustyMTB I can recommend giving the Ergon GP1 grips a try. They stopped my pins & needles and numbness.
If you give them a try, take an Allen key with you as getting the angle just right is key to success. The angle may be different on each grip.

You don't have to buy new ones, there are used ones on eBay to try out the concept. It is where I sell my old ones.

 

[Hattori-Hanzo]

Going from a Newman carbon bar to an alloy spank spike and then back to the Newman carbon bar I could feel a massive difference between the two, with the carbon bars feeling every fibration and causing pins and needles.

I'm now running SQ labs 16 degrees with extra chunky ESIgrips and the pins and needles have stopped and the wrist pain is massively improved.

I would recommend doing the simple wrist angle test to see if a bigger back sweep would help you out.

 

[RustyMTB]

Think I might try that first rather than take everything off & swap bars altogether. Start with the easy stuff & all that.

 

[steve_sordy]

Before I knew that carbon bars varied in stiffness and feel, I switched from a Renthal alloy bar to the exact same geometry Renthal carbon bar and I could not believe the difference! Every single rock felt as though it had had the corners rounded off just for me.
But two rides later it was as though I hadn't bothered, it was now the new normal.

 

[John Beedham]

@RustyMTB I can recommend giving the Ergon GP1 grips a try. They stopped my pins & needles and numbness.
If you give them a try, take an Allen key with you as getting the angle just right is key to success. The angle may be different on each grip.

You don't have to buy new ones, there are used ones on eBay to try out the concept. It is where I sell my old ones.

…agree … Ergon GP1 grips solve the pins and needles, and reduce other wrist and arm fatigue.

 

[Mikehorti]

@RustyMTB whilst I didn’t suffer pins and needles, I’ve found the Spank Vibrocore bar to have completely eliminated my arm pump.
SPANK SPIKE 800 Vibrocore™ Bar

https://www.bikeradar.com/reviews/c...in/spank-spike-800-vibrocore-handlebar-review

 

[Onetime]

I'm noticing this in my right wrist lately. It generally comes on about ten miles in to a ride.90% of my riding is longish trail stuff, sat down. I haven't made any changes to the contact points recently, so I'm interested in advice on what I guess is adjusting bars, saddle etc. aimed at relieving pressue in my arms. Bike is a Jam2 large & I'm 6' tall if that is useful, the only change over the stock bike is Renthal bars, 30mm rise & cut to 760mm.

If I were you, I’d get higher rise bars to take more weight off of your hands/wrists.

 

[Growmac]

Two things have alleviated my pins and needles in hands. I moved my brakes further down so that my wrists were not as cocked back when on the brakes. I then fitted the ridiculously expensive Revs grips. The combination of the two, the latter on day three of an Alps trip, have massively reduced the problem.