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Your symptoms are common in motorcycling too. The remedy is to loosen the grip, which is advised anyway for smoother and safer driving. "As if you were steering
by the_gipsy 3y ago
Your symptoms are common in motorcycling too. The remedy is to loosen the grip, which is advised anyway for smoother and safer driving. "As if you were steering just with your index finger and thumb's tips".
- stavros 3y agoHm, why is that safer?
- the_gipsy 3y agoForcing the front wheel "against its will" is gonna make it lose its grip or make the whole bike unstable when turning.
- jacquesm 3y agoThat I can try right away (today, even), thank you for the tip!
- jacquesm 3y ago2nd reply, so, not enough time to do a long trip but it definitely feels that a looser grip helps but: I'm afraid that I'll lose control of the bike on a pothole and I can't afford another fall. So I'll definitely do this alternating hands and I'll still try to find good handlebar covers with padding in them (round ones, handle bars aligned with the grip so there is the most surface and least pressure).
- the_gipsy 3y agoGood to hear. I hope you can find a balance. Mostly just not "clamping" so much, which is maybe the reason for strain. I try to not clamp and neither lean much on the handlebars. So I have to move my hips and body a bit, but I do see improvement in handling. If I hit a pothole or debris, the bike will autocorrect much better if there's less pressure on the handlebars/front wheel.
- jacquesm 3y agoPart of this is that I'm simply afraid to fall again (I have half an Ikea's worth of steel in one leg and another fall would be very bad indeed). So some of this rigidity is probably simply due to that fear.