If you're pretty sure your bicycle fits properly, any hand discomfort you experience may be related to how you ride and your equipment. Remember the most important rule of hand comfort: change hand positions often. Even if your bike is equipped with flat bars it's possible to move your hands around to grip different parts of the bar. Also, consider adding bar ends to provide additional spots to hang on.

Relax
Relaxing your grip on the bars can't be overemphasized, either. With practice, it's easy to keep a controlled grip even though your upper body is relaxed. A trick that can help is regularly removing one hand at a time and shaking it out by your side to relieve the tension and revive the circulation to the palm and fingers.

Change The Grips Or Tape
Some cyclists find that different grips or padding is the cure for hand problems. We offer many different types of bar tape and grips and experimenting with a change often helps. Sometimes, just changing the bar's diameter with the new grip or tape helps hands relax and ease discomfort.

Try Different Gloves
Another thing to try is different types of gloves. If the pair you have is too tight it will prevent proper circulation. And some types provide more padding than others. There are even gender-specific styles and some with shock-absorbing materials in the palms. We have an excellent selection and will be happy to show you some.

If you're biking off-road, consider wearing long-finger gloves because these are better suited to protecting the entire hand from thorns and poison plants than short-finger models.