I am back from a quick trip to Canada, suffering from jetlag (1st night over the Atlantic with 2 hrs sleep and second night via Doha with no sleep). Arvon2 and other bags arrived 2 days after they were left behind at Heathrow and is still in it's box - too tired to open it. Besides, it isn't Christmas yet

As an aside, I got arvon2 on a Greyhound with my second bag by claiming it was a custom built wheelchair They saw my crutches, shrugged and let it on with no charge. The airlines did the same. Well, it does have wheels and I can sit on it, so..

Now to the point of this.

The bars allow only one basic hand position and I think I should get "bar ends" to increase my hand positions while touring. This past summer with drop bars I got tingling in my first 2 fingers on both hands, which has disappeared since I have stopped touring for a while. I have never used bar ends because I use drop bars on my tourer/road bikes. I see some bar ends are just tubes, but others have "grooves" for fingers. Any advantages to either for touring? Any suggestions as to which to buy - or just go for the cheapest? Short ones (almost just a stub tube) or longer tubes? How about more (thicker) bar tape (with gel layer??).

Remember my size and the fact that next June-August I'll be bicycling across part of southern Australia, and ...
Thanks in advance.