Numb wrists?

Interested to hear that someone else has rotated their clipons forward. I've just done the same but only had a 4mile ride to test. I reckon it will help. I've got a pointy and instead of the hacksaw used a 4" disc cutter, very easy just be careful ( mask up well) near your paintwork and fork tube. I agree that this make the bars a little more forward but it was my thumb and forefinger around the throttle that seemed to be giving me the most grief( kept wanting to put my thumb on top every now and then for a rest! bit hazardous!) and it was the angle that was contributing to the issue. Basically I need higher bars ( seriously into old git territory age wise!) and the ones I favoured, (sunrisers) from a guy in canada have stopped being produced. I saw the helibars, ( forget about £250 dollars they're £199 in you friendly UK dealer and almost double the cost of the sunrisers for half the rise) and can anyone confirm that they do give a full extra inch of rise? Looked less in the shop. If you've got them does it solve your problem?

The Heli bars do make a big difference, I never actually measured the change in rise they give but the difference is very noticeable as is rake angle and width. I changed to them almost as soon as I got the bike.

For what its worth, if anything, I'm an older git anol and a long time, long distance cyclist and am therefore very used to changing height / angles of bars on pedal bikes to get maximum comfort on specific frame geometries - I would not have lived with the standard bars on the SV, it was an automatic thing for me to look to change them. Oh and I got my heli bars second hand at a very good price so that helped!

Hi
Don't want to bore you all silly, but as a qualified Health & Safety practitioner and a more than happy owner of my pointy SV (if not numbed handed), I'd like to point out that if this bike was a tool that you would use at work it would come under PUWER (Provision of Use and Work Equipment Regs).

In which case the manufacturer would have a legal obligation to ensure the handlebars were designed as ergonomically as is reasonably practicable.

If it gave you numb and tingly thumbs/hands after such a short period of use it would be classed as unsafe to use or to be used only in short periods of time. Especially if it was use repetitively.


I'm curious as to what health considerations were taken into account when designing bike handlebars. It seems the riders health in this case, was the least thing on their minds and that aesthetics was to be its main selling point. But hey...i could be wrong!

Jon from Bristol