Eddie, Jones probably wrote that long before he became older or perhaps he never suffered arthritis or carpel tunnel. Ergo grips are a god-send for us older guys. Even a lot of MTB racers use Ergon and other ergo grips these days.
By the way, ergo bars need to have the flat part angle upward a bit to actually put the pressure on the padded part of your hand, taking pressure off the ulnar nerve in the center of the hand. Therefore, lock-on ergo grip work well. Ergo grips without lock-ons will rotate. Ditto soft ergo grips that are very bendy don't actually support your hand. Cheers, Bill in Roswell, GA On Friday, February 1, 2019 at 8:04:11 PM UTC-5, eddietheflay wrote: > > I have a tried number of upright bars and now on a set of Jones Loops. > Jones recommends his own normal round rubber/silicone grips and he poo poos > things like Ergons. Gotta say for my old hands and maybe even when they > were younger, the Ergons are a godsend for comfort compared to having the > weight on your hands sliced in half by round grips over many miles. I like > the idea of a dremel groove cut into Ergons to make room for cables. > > On Sunday, October 21, 2018 at 8:20:44 PM UTC-7, Eric Myers wrote: >> >> Went for a 30 mile ride today on the Albatross bars, and somewhere >> between 20 and 25 miles I found myself wishing for some part of the grip >> with more padding. Right now the main grip area is just a wrap of >> Neubaum's tape and the rest is bare metal. I didn't have great luck with >> the last cork grips I tried, but maybe the new ones are better. I just put >> something like the Dutch Paddle grips on my son's bike and was about to get >> some for me but I'm not sure how to make them work with bar ends. I'm >> tempted to try the silicone ones that Riv sells, but I'd love to hear about >> other solutions. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
