Originally Posted by
Steely Dan
it did for me. as i mentioned before, when i first got my new bike i had hand numbing issues with just the single hand position flat bar that had crappy grips. then i put on significantly better grips and bar ends for more hand positions and voila, no more hand numbness.
More hand positions will help, and so will better gloves or grips...to a point. The primary cause however is that there was too much weight on your hands. And hands aren't designed to carry the weight of our bodies. Too much weight on crappy grips is certainly worse than on good grips, but it is the weight that is the core issue.