Tingling fingers - good padded gloves?

[vjones777]

I've found that after a fairly short while riding (~20mins) I find that my hands and especially my fingers start tingling - similar to 'pins and needles', but not at all painfull. It doesn't happen any other time, just when riding the bike.

Has anyone else had this?

The gloves I have arn't Bike gloves - they are work gloves with gel padded palms meant for operating vibrating machinery, which I thought would work great.

Anyway, methinks I should probably get a a pair of Bike gloves. What should I look for in a pair, particularly regarding padding? Can anyone recommend a comfy pair - I plan on doing a few day trips this year.

TIA.

[littleperson]

I get that with proper bike gloves. I readjust my hnad position and it seems to relieve the problem

[simesb]

Many summer gloves are only "padded" in the impact positions.

My bet is you are too tense on the bike and have a death grip on the bars, or possibly the levers need adjusting. Keep your arms relaxed as possible; when it is safe to do so, try waving your elbows like a chicken while keeping your hands on the bars - it shows your arms are relaxed.

[GavinD]

You can also get it from an over inflated front tyre!

[G]

Over inflated front tyre :s how do you figure that out?

It will be to much weight on your wrist. Vibration can also cause it (VBWF).


Edit: poor repetitive wrist positioning can all cause carpal tunnel syndrome... For which pins and needles are a major symptom.

[bald git]

maybe its carpels tunnel. if your a manual worker/ typist and use your hand a lot in a repeditive job. its constriction on the nerves in the wrist/ hand. causes tingling, like pins and needles. shaking hand sometimes stops it.

[GavinD]

Over inflated front tyre :s how do you figure that out?

It will be to much weight on your wrist. Vibration can also cause it (VBWF).


Edit: poor repetitive wrist positioning can all cause carpal tunnel syndrome... For which pins and needles are a major symptom.

nothing to figure out - the gauge on my compressor broke once and after an hour I got tingling in my hands - so I used my digital pressure gauge that was under my seat and the front was at nearly 50 psi - woops!!

[Philbo]

I used to get this, turned out be a combination of gloves that were too "snug", and too much tension in my arms and hands.

get some better fitting gloves and try to relax your grip, worked wonders for me!
RE: glove fitting, technically my gloves are probably a bit on the big side for me, but at least I can feel my fingers!

[vjones777]

I used to get this, turned out be a combination of gloves that were too "snug", and too much tension in my arms and hands.

get some better fitting gloves and try to relax your grip, worked wonders for me!

Sounds like a plan. Probably right on both counts - the gloves have velcro wrists which I may well be overfastening... and I'm also a pretty new rider so I'm probably tenser than I should be... something to check next ride.

Cheers.

[Specialone]

I had identical problem, i found my gloves were badly fitting so switched to alpinestars supa moto summer type gloves and that helped a lot.
New riders, me included, do more of a death grip than experienced riders so that will cause it as well.
How old are you?
Being a biggish bloke i had a lot of weight on my wrists so i tried riding, as suggested by people on here, with my forearms parralel with the road and that helps as well but couldnt ride distance in this position as it created a problem in my back.
I have changed my clip ons to bars now and dont hardly get any numb hands now except on long rides which a quick shake normally sorts out.

[Mike_84_650S'99]

Hi all.

Im new to riding (passed my DAS in late Oct '10 and SV650.org). I wonder if many new riders that start from sporty bike have that kind of a problem. I have a curvy "S" and I now got needles and pins in my left hand. I looked online for symptoms and it looks like CTS (numbness in thumb, 1st, 2nd and half of 3rd finger) but haven't had it looked at by a doc. Got appointment on thurs.

My question is if anyone remembers having it as a beginner, how long it lasted and if it was more serious or not. I had numbness before but I've put it down to cold mornings riding and pretty much ignored it (tw**). Now I adjusted clutch lever, cleaned and greased it and oiled the cable.

Could it be that my tendons just need more time getting used to operating the clutch?

Cheers

[Whyte25]

Hiya Mike 84..

welcome !

yeah i passed my test not much before that and i used to get the same thing, then i relaxed and I don`t get it anymore... :-)

Hope this helps

D

[Mike_84_650S'99]

Cheers for that Whyte25.

The only thing is that I haven't been on a bike two days now as it has a nice snow cap on it, and the pain is still here. And I payed attention to relaxing my hand when on the bike even letting it hang loose when i didn't need to use the clutch. But maybe its my body telling me "You've ignored it when I gave you warning so now you shall suffer" :).

When i get back on the bike I'll try to relax more. Cheers

[ChrisSV]

I got exactly the same as you, when I got my new gloves, cause they were stiff and holding my fingers in odd positions, but after a couple of long rides they loosened off and al is solved.
HTH

[rictus01]

there are a number of factors at work here,

The first is the position of the clipons, I regularly switch between and upright handlebar and clipons (or used to) and even with many years riding it still took a week or two to get used to each time, but did sort itself out after that time.

The second is the position of the bar levers, to high and it bends your wrists back restricting circulation and to low makes you "over grip" straining the wrist, so make sure they are in a direct line elbow/wrist/lever.

the third is riding position, this directly effects the weight you apply through your arms, make sure to grip the tank with your knees and take some of the weight threw your lower back, not everything, but some, this will help ease the loading on your arms.

Fourth, tension, in both the hands and forearms will lead to these symptoms, try to rest the palms on the grips (like you are pushing equally with both palms against the handlebars), the pressure between them pushing on both palms stops them going anywhere, then just wrap your fingers around them, there is no need to actually "grip" them at all, if this is done, you'll find not only do you have freer finger movement to u, but any tension in the forearms is instantly negated as well.

And last is gloves, obviously the amount of padding on the palm will effect the "feel", most winter gloves will sacrifice feel for warmth, so sumer gloves tend to allow you to have more control, so "grip" less, glove fitment is also important, to small and they will restrict circulation and to large and they will bunch-up so you'll end up gripping harder, both being problematic.

HTH

Cheers Mark.

[Mike_84_650S'99]

Thanks a lot rictus01.

I will check all mentioned above and apply as required. It seems to be getting a bit better now. Still got that tingling feeling but its not painful and i can form a fist without major problems.

Thanks once again.