Originally Posted by
scrublover
if you're relying on your grip padding to prevent hand fatigue while on downhills, you're doing it wrong.
try not death gripping your bars, moving your brake lever reach closer to the bars, and grabbing/using less/not riding your brakes.
I dont know what kind of downhills you ride but if I held my grips any looser than i currently do, i would definetly be at risk of having them taken out of my hands. I went on a 20 mile full of downhills and my new brakes arent even broken in yet. I find this advice sub-standard, you need a certain amount of padding in your grips for the shifting of your body forward.