Tingling fingers - good padded gloves?

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.

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

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.

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

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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.

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.

Originally Posted by 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.

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!!

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!

Originally Posted by 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!

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.

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.