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Old 09-11-19, 01:43 PM
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Clem von Jones
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1. Shorter stem and corresponding increase of saddle setback to reduce weight on your hands.
2. Increase bar drop. Consider drastically lowering the bars. The lower you go the shorter the stem has to be to maintain the same reach. Use an online reach calculator. It's counter-intuitive but increasing bar drop can reduce weight on your hands by shifting more weight into your body core, spine, and legs.
3. Consider the possibility you're developing peripheral neuropathy as a pre-diabetic condition. Half the population is prediabetic, but fortunately it's easily reversible by changing to a low-carb diet. Symptoms of prediabetes and "metabolic syndrome" include hindered circulation in your legs and hands, feelings of coldness, numbness, feeling exhausted after eating meals especially a mid-afternoon crash, frequent urination, and weight gain. If these symptoms apply google metabolic syndrome and low-carb diet. Nip diabetes in the bud before it destroys you. It's easy to reverse.
4. It's also possible your stem is too short and inadequate reach causes back-pressure against your hands cutting off circulation, but that's a fairly obvious situation.

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