Bottom line. My Campy Ergo shifters make my hands go numb. They've got a big lump where they transition to the bar. What am I doing wrong?
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I moved from Shimano STI to Campy in the early 90's. I love the way Campy separates braking from shifting, but I've always had problems getting comfortable on the grips. The big damned lump, where shifter meets bar, gets a lot of pressure from my hands, which then go numb. I've got to be doing something wrong. Maybe it's the position or angle of the shifters, or maybe I'm just stubbornly hanging on to it wrong. I've been experimenting to beat this for years, but I'm out of ideas.
Altho one might be tempted to point to the cables, they are actually "beside" the bump, vs. "the cause" of the bump. If there was no bump, the cables would simply make the surface broader and I'd be good with that.
These are Chorus 11's. 2016 maybe.
The first pic shows a Campy Ergo shifter with no bump. How can that be? Note how the Campy shifter offers a horiz surface for the hand, but the Shimano's hand surface is at ~25deg. What are people doing such that they can get their hand comfortable on that horiz surface? My forearms aren't horiz so I have to pivot my wrists when I've got the handgrips set up like the pic. How can awkwardly pivoting the wrists be the plan?
The second pic shows the plastic part of the shifter that is causing the trouble. Note red circle.
The third pic is my bike. Note the red line on the shifter's shadow.
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I moved from Shimano STI to Campy in the early 90's. I love the way Campy separates braking from shifting, but I've always had problems getting comfortable on the grips. The big damned lump, where shifter meets bar, gets a lot of pressure from my hands, which then go numb. I've got to be doing something wrong. Maybe it's the position or angle of the shifters, or maybe I'm just stubbornly hanging on to it wrong. I've been experimenting to beat this for years, but I'm out of ideas.
Altho one might be tempted to point to the cables, they are actually "beside" the bump, vs. "the cause" of the bump. If there was no bump, the cables would simply make the surface broader and I'd be good with that.
These are Chorus 11's. 2016 maybe.
The first pic shows a Campy Ergo shifter with no bump. How can that be? Note how the Campy shifter offers a horiz surface for the hand, but the Shimano's hand surface is at ~25deg. What are people doing such that they can get their hand comfortable on that horiz surface? My forearms aren't horiz so I have to pivot my wrists when I've got the handgrips set up like the pic. How can awkwardly pivoting the wrists be the plan?
The second pic shows the plastic part of the shifter that is causing the trouble. Note red circle.
The third pic is my bike. Note the red line on the shifter's shadow.
Books @ Amazon
"If only he had used his genius for niceness, instead of Evil." M. Smart
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RangerGress: Aug 30, 20 14:12