Aero Bars on Flat road bike

Have you thought about something a little simpler like bar ends? When I started back riding a couple years ago on a "roadified" old mountain bike, I had a lot of hand/wrist fatigue issues. I switched to a set of Ergon GP5 grips with built-in bar ends which allowed me multiple hand placement options and help extend the time I could ride before I felt hand fatigue.

http://www.ergon-bike.com/en/product.html?a=griffe#gptouring-424100...


If you're really wanting to put aero bars on it, I would suggest you look at the Redshift Aero System, or at least the Redshift Seat Post. A flat bar road bike presumably has geometry on the relaxed side of the road bike spectrum. You'll really want to get that seat position forward and up when you're on the aero bars to keep from losing power. The Redshift Seat posts allows you to go back and forth from a regular seat position to an aero-bar specific position on the fly.

https://www.redshiftsports.com/switch-aero-system/



In the end, what really fixed the issue for me was improved core strength. Even with good gloves and the better cushioned grips with bar ends, I would still eventually get sore hands or wrists. When I came back to the bike at the beginning of last summer, after 9 months of intense swim workouts which really developed my core strength, soreness of the hands and wrist was a thing of the past, even on my newly acquired road bike.

Edited by gary p 2016-06-16 1:18 PM