Originally Posted by
subclavius
Could you raise the bars so you're not putting as much downward pressure on your hands? I did that on one bike and it worked well, but this particular bike had a lot of room to move in that department.
Positioning is often not so intuitive. On one of my bikes I had numbness in my hands until I got it fitted. The solution ended up involving a stem 30 mm longer, dropped a solid 2"