Slightly sore throttle wrist after 4 hours !!

[nodrog:Me]

Does anyone have a cure for the effect that having your throttle turned half way on means your wrist ends up slightly lower than the handle bars, and sort of a bit cranked, and cramped, and as soon as you try and straighten your wrist, you end up releasing the throttle to get a straighter wrist arm action and end up slowing down and shagging around trying to get a better grip, a few kms down the road your hand has slipped around the throttle again, and bent your wrist again. I only get this way after about 4 hours riding. I will never stop me riding these distances or changing my bike because it has happened on all the bikes I have had.
Left wrist / hand stays straighter no problems there. May be I should just get tough?? I know a few other riders have the same problem...Any ideas out there??

try loosening the screws that hold the throttle assembly on, and rotating it forward abit. this means that for the same amount of throttle you need your wrist wont be twisted down as much.

[vifferman]

Maybe you need a different type of bike...?

No, just a new body. It's gradually crapping out due to arthritis. However, biking is actually better for it than traveling by car, especially the workout the hydraulic clutch gives my left hand.

[CookMySock]

I'd be very pleased if I could ride for four hours before getting "a slightly sore wrist". I'm lucky if I can manage an hour.

haha yeah, pretty much I can do two hours, then I really should be stoppin, unless I'm hoofin' it, then more often.

I've never had this problem [snip, rearrange] However I have to stop every 2 1/2 hours for fuel.

Yup.

I think it stems from too long in a straight line. If you're going through twisties for hours you're changing your wrist position regularly so don't get any issues.

I have noticed this too. Me and Delphinus were hot-footin' it around teh cape, and my brain was overloading, so I asked for a break. The brain was rooted, but no sore wrists at all !! First time ever!

DB

[xwhatsit]

try loosening the screws that hold the throttle assembly on, and rotating it forward abit. this means that for the same amount of throttle you need your wrist wont be twisted down as much.

Lol wut?

How does that work? Could you perhaps explain that to me again


With my pissy little 250, I need full throttle rather a lot. Also need to close it completely to shift gear, brake occasionally etc. So I've developed a strange sort of `double move' to move my hand further around the throttle.

I'd quite like one of those short throw throttles. Tommaselli make a lovely aluminium-bodied one.

[nodrog:Me]

Lol wut?

How does that work? Could you perhaps explain that to me again


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you are rotating the whole throttle assembly foward on the handlebar, which raises the point of where the throttle stops, so you dont have to twist your wrist right around the bar to get it to open all the way to the stop.

[HornetBoy]

you are rotating the whole throttle assembly foward on the handlebar, which raises the point of where the throttle stops, so you dont have to twist your wrist right around the bar to get it to open all the way to the stop.

Yea ,ive done this with my katana actually as i was getting soar of having a almost completly flexed back wrist on the highway so i flicked the Grip setup foward so that at highway speeds my wrist was in a more relaxed poition ,and also in my case it meant i didnt need to flex back as much to accelerate.

Am considering a 1/4 throttle thing but ive been told it would take a bit of getting used to and could be a bad choice for road riding.

[xwhatsit]

you are rotating the whole throttle assembly foward on the handlebar, which raises the point of where the throttle stops, so you dont have to twist your wrist right around the bar to get it to open all the way to the stop.

Yeah but it's a cylindrical barrel -- there's no markings on the throttle grip, right?

OK -- maybe my bike is insanely weird, but say I rotate the throttle assembly forward on my bike. Now, next time I go to ride it, I reach down and grab the throttle. Put my hand in the usual position -- except now the throttle assembly is rotated. So my hand will be further back on the throttle compared to before. There's still the same number of degrees it's turning before it hits the stop.

It's not like if you put the throttle assembly forward you're going to put your hand forward as well. Unless, of course, your throttle grip isn't round.

Here's a picture to illustrate what I'm so poor at explaining. Notice in 2a and 2b the throttle assembly has been rotated forward -- but of course, the poor man with the retarded hand has put his hand (as of course he would) in the normal, comfortable position his hand falls to naturally -- the same position as in 1a and 1b.

[nodrog:Me]

Yeah but it's a cylindrical barrel -- there's no markings on the throttle grip, right?

OK -- maybe my bike is insanely weird, but say I rotate the throttle assembly forward on my bike. Now, next time I go to ride it, I reach down and grab the throttle. Put my hand in the usual position -- except now the throttle assembly is rotated. So my hand will be further back on the throttle compared to before. There's still the same number of degrees it's turning before it hits the stop.

It's not like if you put the throttle assembly forward you're going to put your hand forward as well. Unless, of course, your throttle grip isn't round.

Here's a picture to illustrate what I'm so poor at explaining. Notice in 2a and 2b the throttle assembly has been rotated forward -- but of course, the poor man with the retarded hand has put his hand (as of course he would) in the normal, comfortable position his hand falls to naturally -- the same position as in 1a and 1b.

cool words and pictures and shit, it works, maybe you should try it instead of confusing yourself with scientific bullshit

[Jantar]

I believe this method works on bikes where you are likely to spend a lot of time at high throttle settings. On most large capacity bikes the normal cruise is only around 1/4 throttle, so changing the postion of the stop wont help. What may help, is rotating your brake lever down a bit, so the natural rest position is just a touch further forward to begin with.

[xwhatsit]

cool words and pictures and shit, it works, maybe you should try it instead of confusing yourself with scientific bullshit

OK -- I'll phrase it simply. By rotating your throttle assembly, do you end up putting your hand in a different position when you reach down to the bars?

I, personally, do not. My throttle is round. No matter how it is rotated, my hand is still is the same starting place. Rotating the throttle assembly does not change the amount of travel it takes to get to full throttle, so it doesn't change anything for me.

If, for some reason, rotating your throttle assembly makes you put your hand in a different starting position (can't figure out why that would be), then it would work. As Jantar says, moving your brake lever would help change your throttle hand's resting position, so I can see that working.

[tri boy]

Frequent wanking is the cure to all aches.

[nodrog:Me]

...... stuff.....

go and rotate your throttle assembly forward 180 degrees, then come back and say it didnt change where you hand position started.

im not talking about shortening the throw, im talking about where your hand would be position relative to the same amout of aplied throttle.

[xwhatsit]

go and rotate your throttle assembly forward 180 degrees, then come back and say it didnt change where you hand position started.

Ah, now we're getting somewhere. I have done that (fitted a few different bars to my bike, routing different cables etc), and no, it doesn't. Throttle grip is completely round (doesn't know which way is up), and I never use anything on the right-hand switchblock (kickstart, leave lights on), so that doesn't affect it either.

That might be why -- electric starter, you shift your hand so you can hit it before you start riding, thus changing the position of your hand. I'm surprised it lasts for the duration of the ride, though?

[Warr]

Get one of these. Throttle Boss
I slide mine partly over the bar end so that the throttle stays where you left it.
Yes not entirely safe, but its safer than texting

[alanzs]

Sometime ago I tried a throttle boss. A rubber device that you attatch to your throttle grip. When you are riding your palm puts pressure on it and aids in holding a constant thottle without hanging onto the grip too tight. Confused? Think cheap cruise control.

Wasn't too bad once you get used to it.

I have used one for years. They help immensely and when I don't want to use it, I just twist it out of the way. Excellent product.