Originally Posted by
Rothaí
How much more upright are you ? I have a fairly low down profile on the bike (I go against the prevailing wind to work), but I find he left side of my left hand goes numb and needs to be "shaken out" now and then. I have a straight bar, was assuming if I had drops it would cure the numbness. Did you have to "come up" by much ?
This bike is a size too small for me, and I was okay with being a little bent over, but as you noticed, lack of hand positions tend to make hands go numb if there's much weight on them. I bought a new rigid fork, and 100mm worth of spacers, figuring if it was too high, I could cut the fork down.
Here's the bike before: the bar is about 1" below the saddle
And after. You can see with the trekking bars, the part you normally ride on isn't that much higher, and I don't really use the front of them. The good thing about trekking bars is that you can adjust the height a little by just rotating the bars. I added 4" of spacers, so now it's about 2-3" above the saddle.
