Grip width

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Radley

"Bruce Edge" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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What's the deal with thin vs. thick grips?

It's more than just a padding issue. I got some extreme steering
silicone grips several months ago, and while I love the grip, hy hands
have started aching, sore knucles, fingers pop on extending etc...

I think my grip diameter is too small. Is there some hueristic for
picking the right thickness?

FWIW, I use size XXL gloves.

Thanks, Bruce

Bruce Edge said:

What's the deal with thin vs. thick grips?

It's more than just a padding issue. I got some extreme steering
silicone grips several months ago, and while I love the grip, hy hands
have started aching, sore knucles, fingers pop on extending etc...

I think my grip diameter is too small. Is there some hueristic for
picking the right thickness?

FWIW, I use size XXL gloves.

Thanks, Bruce

Did you go with the red, black or blue ones?

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Slacker

"Bruce Edge" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

What's the deal with thin vs. thick grips?

It's more than just a padding issue. I got some extreme steering
silicone grips several months ago, and while I love the grip, hy hands
have started aching, sore knucles, fingers pop on extending etc...

I think my grip diameter is too small. Is there some hueristic for
picking the right thickness?

FWIW, I use size XXL gloves.

Thanks, Bruce

Wow. So, you're smart enough to use the word "heuristic," but dumb enough
to fall for "extreeeeem steering?"

If you have XXL hands, you're probably heavy too, and put that much more
weight on your hands. I say get rid of too-thing grips. I really like the
cushion of the Serfas Dual Density grips, but am using Crank Bros. Neo Grips
on my mtb. They're really thin but I find them super comfortable. I'm
never in the saddle, but still maintain a light touch. And, I wear MD
gloves, so that makes me smaller than you (enough confusion, I'm 185 lbs.).

Seriously, is there someone offering "extreme steering" grips??

Chris
"extreme anything will be extreme [censored]"

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"Bruce Edge" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

What's the deal with thin vs. thick grips?

It's more than just a padding issue. I got some extreme steering
silicone grips several months ago, and while I love the grip, hy hands
have started aching, sore knucles, fingers pop on extending etc...

I think my grip diameter is too small. Is there some hueristic for
picking the right thickness?

FWIW, I use size XXL gloves.

Thanks, Bruce

Wow. So, you're smart enough to use the word "heuristic," but dumb enough
to fall for "extreeeeem steering?"

If you have XXL hands, you're probably heavy too, and put that much more
weight on your hands. I say get rid of too-thing grips. I really like

the

Quoted message said:

cushion of the Serfas Dual Density grips, but am using Crank Bros. Neo

Grips

Quoted message said:

on my mtb. They're really thin but I find them super comfortable. I'm
never in the saddle, but still maintain a light touch. And, I wear MD
gloves, so that makes me smaller than you (enough confusion, I'm 185

lbs.).

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Seriously, is there someone offering "extreme steering" grips??

Yes. And anyone using shock absorption to market a grip is clueless. Grips
are for gripping, not shock absorption. Tires and suspension are for shock
absortion. I have relatively weak and fairly large hands yet I get no hand
fatigue running thin grips and thin gloves (unless I'm braking for long
periods, but that is from hand weakness not the grips). Even on my rigid,
drop bar bike with just thin handlebar tape I don't get any hand fatigue.

Greg

On 2004-06-05, G.T. penned:

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Yes. And anyone using shock absorption to market a grip is clueless.
Grips are for gripping, not shock absorption. Tires and suspension
are for shock absortion. I have relatively weak and fairly large
hands yet I get no hand fatigue running thin grips and thin gloves
(unless I'm braking for long periods, but that is from hand weakness
not the grips). Even on my rigid, drop bar bike with just thin
handlebar tape I don't get any hand fatigue.

This actually makes a lot of sense to me. Yes, shock absorption should
be handled in places other than the glove.

But if you don't have the money to upgrade the bike, maybe padded gloves
are better than nothing?

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monique

Slacker said:

Bruce Edge said:

What's the deal with thin vs. thick grips?

It's more than just a padding issue. I got some extreme steering
silicone grips several months ago, and while I love the grip, hy hands
have started aching, sore knucles, fingers pop on extending etc...

I think my grip diameter is too small. Is there some hueristic for
picking the right thickness?

FWIW, I use size XXL gloves.

Thanks, Bruce

Did you go with the red, black or blue ones?

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Slacker

Black ones, but you can get any width in black, I think.
Well at least their mongo diameter ones and the normal (thin) oneas come
in black.

-Bruce

G.T. said:

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"Bruce Edge" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

What's the deal with thin vs. thick grips?

It's more than just a padding issue. I got some extreme steering
silicone grips several months ago, and while I love the grip, hy hands
have started aching, sore knucles, fingers pop on extending etc...

I think my grip diameter is too small. Is there some hueristic for
picking the right thickness?

FWIW, I use size XXL gloves.

Thanks, Bruce

Wow. So, you're smart enough to use the word "heuristic," but dumb enough
to fall for "extreeeeem steering?"

So the company has a stupid name, I'll agree with you there.

Quoted message said:

Yes. And anyone using shock absorption to market a grip is clueless. Grips
are for gripping, not shock absorption. Tires and suspension are for shock
absortion. I have relatively weak and fairly large hands yet I get no hand
fatigue running thin grips and thin gloves (unless I'm braking for long
periods, but that is from hand weakness not the grips). Even on my rigid,
drop bar bike with just thin handlebar tape I don't get any hand fatigue.

Greg

They dampen the amount of vibration one feels through the bars. I was
really sold on them when I first got them. It felt like I had more
control, less effort spent holding on, and less hand fatigue after long
chattery donwhills etc...

It wasn't until I had ridden on them for 6 months or so that I started
getting wierd pains and ratcheting is some finger joints.

I asked about this because my last grips were a lot thicker and although
they transmitted more vibration to ones hands, I got muscle soreness,
not joint issues. I'm still attributing this to grip diameter. I was
just wondering is anyone else had had a similar experience with too
small a diameter grip sizing.

If none of you guys have ever tried these things, you gotta take a look:
http://www.extremesteering.com/Silicone_Grips_Shock_Absorbing.htm

Just get the right size :-)

-Bruce