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Thor_MN

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9. Some may not like the idea, but I built a support I can lean on.
Mon May 30, 2016, 03:22 PM
May 2016

My numbness come from locking out my elbows. That puts all the road vibration into my wrists and shoulders. Keeping the elbows bent and the shoulders down helps, if you can remember to do it. Your biceps and triceps are much better shock absorbers.

What I did was to saw a PVC Tee in half across the top of the Tee, pipe clamp that together on the top bar, running the brake line underneath. A length of PVC vertical and another Tee and some elbows and I have a support that lets me take some of my weight off the handlebars, reminds me to keep my shoulders down and keeps me from locking out my elbows.

Goofy as all heck and I feel somewhat redneck for clamping plumbing parts on my road bike, but my wrists love it.

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