Originally Posted by
blacknbluebikes
Nashbar has a decent set of very affordable gloves.
Nashbar Crochet Gloves - Normal Shipping Ground
You don't need to spend $30+ to test, nor $80 to restack your steering - yet, anyway.
Search the forums extensively. There is an awful lot of conversation over the years on various hands and finger issues.
Tingling, numbness, soreness, carpal tunnel, etc. etc. Dig around. The most important thing I've learned over the years is to spend most of the time with my weight on the heals of my hands, not the fingers, not the joints, not the -v-, not the center of my palm. When you do a regular old push-up, that point where you put your weight at the heal of your palm? That's the position for the majority of my riding time now. Fixed my discomfort issues. BTW, I do ride with those Nashbar gloves, though I really like my Chiba's. Chiba also makes wheelchair gloves and their products have much higher design spec, IMO.
It's heels, not heals, unless you are the o.p. The o.p. wants healing, not heeling. Those Nashbar gloves will be useless for what the o.p. is trying to accomplish, but they are perfect for my needs. Thank you for the heads up. They are actually identical to a pair of Joe Weider weighlifiting gloves that I had for years and actually used for weight lifting and discovered that they made very fine summer time cycling gloves. My wife put them in the wash... bad idea. Don't even wear them in the rain if you can help it. But, enough about us. The o.p. hmmmm. putting Trekking bars on is not, IMO a practical option apart from the sacrilege of it. If they have compact bend bars presently, trekkers will require new brake levers and cables and all that goes with that. A stem extender is a very valid solution and is probably the most practical. It must be said, however, by the o.p.'s own admission they are post injury, and out of shape. Is it the bike that should be modified, or is it the rider that should be modified? A stem extender and padded gloves might bring a measure of comfort to cycling that will allow fitness to increase to the point where they are no longer necessary. But usually not. Cycling, the way most of us do it, is not, in and of itself, enough to change ones body enough to matter. An off bike fitness and cardio program has got to be part of a post injury recovery. FWIW.
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