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staehpj1
Folks will often say to raise the bars, but I doubt that is usually the answer. Still you can experiment with that. Bars can be low or high and still have more or less weight on the hands. The two people that I know that had the most trouble with this on tour both had a more upright posture on the bike.
Very true, sometimes in is bar height relative to the saddle but I find very often that it is issues with fore/aft saddle position and saddle tilt. A saddle that is tilted to far forward will cause you to slide and use your hands to brace yourself. if you are to far back you will tend to lean your weight to far forward so on and so forth. I really like peter whites take on fit.
http://www.peterwhitecycles.com/fitting.htm I don't don't follow everything cause some of it didn't work for me, but I think was personal variance not a failure of the system.