Originally Posted by
Mdgooding
So I ride up on the hoods as that’s where I’d like to be most of the time. My seat is almost all the way back on the rails in an attempt to push my wright back off my hands, but I’m not sure that is the best thing to do. Honestly all I am after if just more comfort and to stop the feeling of when I lift my hands like I am about to fall forward. As a result of that, there is too much pressure on my hands/wrists causing pain.
I see these posts about "too much weight on my hands", and my first reaction is, that you don't really don't want a lot of excess weight on your hands (or on your seat) and the solution to that, your task so to speak, is to find a way to get that weight off your hands AND ONTO THE PEDALS.
Whatever it takes, long stem shorrt stem, seat all the way forward or all the way back. Just find a way to get "centered" on that machine so that there's not much pressure on your hands or on your butt, it's all on the pedals. That's really the key to comfort, speed, balance, and everything else.