Originally Posted by
slowandsteady
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.
i generally prefer riding with some of my torso weight on my hands. when i got my road bike a year ago and lowered the bar to be about 3 below my saddle, i found a perfect comfort/posture zone there, but i do need to move my hands a round a lot, especially on longer rides. with my new hybrd, i wanted to get a similar type of ride posture, so l lowered the bars a bit, but the single hand position flat bar was no good. with some bar ends in the mix, i now have a couple more places for my hands to keeps things changed up.