Lots of this sort of stuff will start coming over from the gravel world... canyon has those funny hover bars that have quite a bit of give on the top, I was surprised when I saw it on a buddy's bike. Frost heave on the roads in Ontario is brutal on the hands too, usually it's not as regular as expansion joints but there's not a lot of concrete roads like Michigan... one of my least favourite things about driving through Michigan is all concrete roads.