Do you know what causes this? After riding for a while, my fingers get numb, and all...weird. It's as if i get that "pins and needles" feeling in my hands instead of my feet. I'm not sure if it was because my fingers were in one place for a long time...kinda weird...i wear glovees too.

It could be that your seat is angled too far forward and you are placing too much weight on your hands. Use a level to set the seat into a level position then tilt it 1-2 degrees up at the nose. This should move your weight more toward the back of the bike and reduce the pressure on your hands. Hopefully this works.

CHEERS.

Mark

Quite common. Often called cyclist's palsy. It indicates that your fit might not be quite right and you're putting too much pressure on the nerves that run through the hand. You could try a few things:

1) Do exercises to increase your core strength (stomach and back muscles), so your body supports more of your weight.
2) Move your saddle back -- oddly in some cases, it *does* lead to lighter pressure on the hands when human logic dictate otherwise (reference Peter White).
3) Otherwise you may need a longer stem.
4) Play with the height of your handlebars -- sometimes higher is better (level with the seat is a good starting point). You're stuck if you have a threadless headset (unless turning the stem upside down helps).
5) Play around with different gloves. If you have thick palms now, go to thinner ones. Thick (aka padded) is not always better with gloves as it actually spreads the problems further.
6) Relax while you're riding. You should have enough pressure with your hands on the bike to maintain control. If your bike gets the wobbles when riding hands free, your hands are working harder than they should be on the bars, too.

Does your bike have flat bars? If so, does it have bar extensions? Bar extensions provide extra hand positions that can help relieve the symptoms because your hands are not in the same position all the time. Someone once shook hands with me and said: "That's the way your hands should be on a bike... you do very little everyday stuff with your hands the way they are on a flat-bar bike". Wise words, especially when you look at drop bars and swept-back European-style bars. I started touring on a flat-bar MTB and *always* had numb fingers. Since going to a drop-bar bike, the problem has been almost eliminated (bike fit takes time).

In addition, LBSs here have a terrible habit of delivering flat-bar bikes with the brake/shifter levers horizontal, so there is a major kink in the wrist if you want to wrap fingers around them. First step is to adjust them so the brake levers are at a 45-degree angle... the wrists then have more of a straight line from arm to hand through them, and the fingers fall naturally on to the levers. Undo the clamp and twist to the required angle (and tighten again!). It's something that takes all of two minutes on most bikes, and always brings comments of amazement at the difference in comfort.

Work through a process of elimination with these ideas rather than doing everything at once. If the numbness persists, it can take a long time to recover, if at all in serious cases.

FWIW

R

i used to get that, but i got a pair of gloves with a big fat pad that covers some nerve on the outside of my hand. its much more comfortable now