Originally Posted by Longfemur

If you use mountain bike type handlebars, no wonder you have hand numbness. In my very arrogant but very certain opinion, straight or flat handlebars put your wrists in the absolute worse position for riding any steady distance, and on top of it, they don't give you the opportunity to keep moving your hands back and forth between a variety of useful positions as you're riding. If people stopped trying to reinvent the wheel, there wouldn't be any need for gimmicks like this.