Originally Posted by
grumpus
Ah, my old 3900 came as a bare frameset with a rigid disc fork, but I just searched through catalogs and it originally had Suntour springs. It's from 2009, newer than I thought, with both disc and rim brake fittings. I built it into a sort of gravel cruiser thing, Schwalbe Fat Frank on cross country wheels, discs and 2x10, backswept riser bar which I need to replace, my wrists don't like it, I should try it with drops.
swap on a shorter stem to help the wrist thing? worth a try.. this helped me.. it reduced the stretch, and occasional locking of my elbows... the bent arms gave me more upper body suspension and lessened bump shock...... the drops will be WAY too far away, and will call for a stubby stem, ala downhill stuff...
i went from a 100mm to an 80 on my Sirrus... helped the numb palms thing quite a bit... as did Oury large dia. grips... i still need to narrow the bars a touch too... maybe soon... springtime is busy busy time.
heck, run a bingoogleduck search for "reducing wrist pain while bicycling".. see what pops up.