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Posted by tmassey
- July 04, 2013, 19:35:57 PMi too had to numbing affect...i bought a pair of finger less weder weight lifting gloves with gel padding in the palm...now i have no numbing....just my 2 cents
terry
Posted by Troll
- June 23, 2013, 14:54:54 PMThis isn't a veiled reference about Depends, is it?
Posted by John Hopkins
- June 23, 2013, 14:04:20 PMQuote from: Troll on June 23, 2013, 08:46:39 AMOnly up to a point! and certainly not at the cost of your dignity..Gettin' old is a real pain...but it beats the only currently available alternative...
John
Posted by Troll
- June 23, 2013, 08:46:39 AMGettin' old is a real pain...but it beats the only currently available alternative...
Posted by DriftinGirl
- June 23, 2013, 08:08:52 AMQuote from: Troll on June 22, 2013, 08:30:59 AMI"m picking up what you're throwing down. My hands feel about the same as yours sound. Cause is rheumatoid arthritis... ligament to left thumb eroded and broken off (thank goodnes for self cancelling signal lights) and on right ulnar entrapment...pain right up to upper arm if I use hand too much. Surgery rarely helps...heard this from so many patients that I won't even consider it. And early or late doesn't seems to make a difference. Ice, splints, and keep it for the important stuff. Mostly learn to live with it and realize it is just the price of having a life!!That's kinda how mine started. I can go way back to like 2002, when I first noticed hand weakness and loss of dexterity. I was doing an ERC and I almost dropped the bike during the demos...made me a little nervous. As it progressed, the pain would keep me awake at night, and then finally the hands started to swell up enough that I couldn't get my gloves on after a day of work. Jan of '06 I finally stopped wrenching because I couldn't hold onto tools anymore. I got a job as a parts delivery driver so I had some income, and then I had the surgery in '07...now I am on SSD...I'm not going into all of it, BUT...be careful about what you do about it. I suspect that if I would have had the procedures about 5 years earlier, they might have been successful...just waited too long. If you really suspect you have the problem, you need to be diagnosed. I've had enough EMGs that I could probably do one myself. You won't like the test one bit...what they do is test the resistance and response time of the nerves in the hand and arm....by passing an electric current through the nerve...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromyography
Posted by Troll
- June 22, 2013, 08:30:59 AMThat's kinda how mine started. I can go way back to like 2002, when I first noticed hand weakness and loss of dexterity. I was doing an ERC and I almost dropped the bike during the demos...made me a little nervous. As it progressed, the pain would keep me awake at night, and then finally the hands started to swell up enough that I couldn't get my gloves on after a day of work. Jan of '06 I finally stopped wrenching because I couldn't hold onto tools anymore. I got a job as a parts delivery driver so I had some income, and then I had the surgery in '07...now I am on SSD...I'm not going into all of it, BUT...be careful about what you do about it. I suspect that if I would have had the procedures about 5 years earlier, they might have been successful...just waited too long. If you really suspect you have the problem, you need to be diagnosed. I've had enough EMGs that I could probably do one myself. You won't like the test one bit...what they do is test the resistance and response time of the nerves in the hand and arm....by passing an electric current through the nerve...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromyography
Posted by greenbarn
- June 21, 2013, 22:06:55 PMI believe (never Dr. diagnosed - that just raised your insurance) I have carpal tunnel on both sides, worse on the right. Numbness in first three fingers, not the pinky. Wake up that way, and it gets bad at times during the day depending on what I'm doing. On the bike, it can start within 10 minutes of starting to ride. So I use the throttle lock quite a bit. And a cramp-buster. I'm not sure the padded gloves would help much in my situation, but it's worth a try.
Posted by Troll
- June 21, 2013, 13:06:26 PMCarpal tunnel targets the median nerve, the ulnar nerve runs through your elbow..I have bilateral carpal tunnel that surgery did not fix, and a left side ulnar entrapment. On the right, thumb and first and second fingers are numb and tingling all the time, and the inside of the ring finger , but not the side next to the pinky....on the left, it's everything...wiring issues!
Posted by DC
- June 21, 2013, 10:49:46 AMQuote from: CDNRatMan on June 21, 2013, 09:15:06 AMIt's all about protecting the ulnar nerve.Was going to comment PC that when I wore my neoprene gloves I had no numbness at all so need to find a pair of lightly padded gloves to solve the issue...
I was having all sorts of nerve, pain and numbness problems in my hands from riding my mountain bike. I went through all sorts of gloves to try to solve the problem. Then I got a pair of neoprene fishing gloves and cut off the fingers. Worked perfectly. No more nerve problems.
Posted by CDNRatMan
- June 21, 2013, 09:15:06 AMWas going to comment PC that when I wore my neoprene gloves I had no numbness at all so need to find a pair of lightly padded gloves to solve the issue...
Posted by pcarrell
- June 20, 2013, 22:22:54 PMI had some hand numbness issues at first, but I got some fingerless deerskin gloves with gel filled palms and that solved the issue completely......like $15 at a good biker leather store.
Posted by chief
- June 17, 2013, 10:53:20 AMGrip weights work on Harleys, but with Drifters they may not be of much use unless you have hard-mounted pipes or engine problems.
As has been indicated you are better off getting your handlebar position adjusted to eliminate bends and stress on your wrists. Also, throttle locks will REALLY, REALLY help wrist and hand fatigue. Even with the cruise control on the goldwing, a throttle "rocker" or lock is really helpful.
Posted by griz01
- June 17, 2013, 06:39:14 AMQuote from: greenbarn on June 16, 2013, 20:48:45 PMIronclad Impact gloves are the one that have pads in the palm, work well for me. Dr told me to use them AFTER my surgery for riding.Hmmm.... I had recently considered asking the doc about the possibilities of surgery. Maybe not. Proves once again surgery is not always a "cure".
I can't get by an hour - my throttle hand starts to get numb in a few minutes. I use a throttle lock and that gets me by. But it would be nice to totally eliminate the issue...
Ironclad gloves - these are work-style golves, right? never thought about that, but sounds like a good idea, maybe I'll look some of them up.
Posted by John Hopkins
- June 16, 2013, 21:29:15 PMGrip weights are supposed to cut down on vibrations and there is a noticable vibration on my drifter, however I think most problems riders have is gripping the bars too tightly, the only time I grip the bars firmly is when riding over uneven ground or when leaning into a curve, most of the time my hands almost hover over the grips with my thumbs underneath, sometimes I rest one hand or the other on my leg just above the knee and rub my leg to get my hands warm, when I fitted my new heated grips I accidently used a fraction too much grip glue and this caused the throttle to be a bit tight, I thought I would ride like that for a few miles to see if it acted like a cruise control and to see if I liked it..1000 miles later and I am still riding with that tightness and find it makes a very useful cruise control, it's no bother to twist the throttle down to change gear and I can rest my right hand and still maintain a steady speed..
John.
Posted by Pilgrim
- June 16, 2013, 21:12:04 PMThey are supposed to reduce high amplitude handlebar vibration...what ever that is.
I think it means the vibration caused by high RPMs