i have ridden 75+km with albatross, albastache and noodle bars. ive also done close to that distance on soma portolas. I think it's important to clarify if your hands are hurting, wrists are hurting, or if youre getting numbness. then you can attempt to change heights, angles or bars to solve that problem.
for me, with albatross, my nerve would pinch and my hands would go numb from index finger to pinky after several hours. albastache would start to hurt my wrists, but my fingers never went fully numb. noodles never had any numbness. portolas are sorta uncomfortable, meaning i get antzy and move around the positions a lot, but my hands don't actually start hurting or going numb. ive sort of deduced that the cause of my pain is my hands splaying flat, at a 90 degree angle from my arms. for whatever reason, this position comes naturally on albatross and albastache bars and my attempts to correct it, while riding, are not very successful. the hoods of drop bars, make it impossible to splay your hands out, so this keeps my forearm, wrist and hand in a straight line. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
