Originally Posted by
HiYoSilver
Agree with Road Fan that the Ironman is a great cushioned glove. I dropped mine because I got tired of the fingerless design. Just as good with the craftsman gloves from home depot, for about 1/2 the cost.
Now, this is not gloves. You need to adjust your fitting. Too much weight is on your hands. You need to change your seat position, your handlebar settings, where you are placing your hands, etc. Something is wrong with what you are doing and wearing double cushion gloves will not solve the fit problem. Triple check that your alignment of hand to arm is as straight as you can get and not bent.
I agree, the root cause is that Yen is putting too much weight on her hands, as I wrote in a different thread where she was talking about this problem. It's not easy for us to prescribe which of the many possible bike adjustments will help, because there are a lot of possibilities. For my hand pressure problem I started with moving the saddle back 5 mm at a time, lowering it just a smidge each time to restore the preferred leg extension. As I moved it back farther my center of gravity moved back until I was nearly balanced over the BB. Then I wasn't leaning so hard on the handlebar. It gave some relief.
Alignment of hand to arm to be straight: this is what I meant by having your arm and wrist in a handshake position.
These are real fine points of fitting - I don't know if most shop fitters look at these sorts of things. One of mine did, and Mrs. Road Fan's did not.