Well I picked up my 95 a couple months ago, love it. One quick question (of course), I've noticed if I ride bare handed, after a half hour or so my right hand gets a little numb. The clip-ons don't really seem to shake, but I guess they must a little. Is this normal?
I seem to remember someone saying that numbness on the throttle hand can be caused by the carbs being out of synch, and thus, causing a slight vibration at the throttle grip. Anyone else?
Hi Tom. First let me welcome you to the group. It's good to have you here. :smile: There is some vibration, even through clip ons and probably many reasons, some natural, some not. Try loosening your grip just a bit, i.e. - no death grip. Sometimes I find that I grip the bars to tight and my hand starts to get a little tingly. Are your grips stock grips? You might try some gel grips. I havea set of Pro Grips on mine (came with the bike), so i cannot really compare to stock but it most likely is an improvement. I pretty much always wear gloves. There are very rare instances that I do not, but I find a good set of comfortable gloves can help as well.
I have tried loosing my grip, but it didn't help much. I am getting good gloves *hopefully* for christmas, my old ones wore through. I have stock grips. Thanks for the help though.
Welcome Tom, Must agree with what vman38 pointed out.A set of pro grips and a good pair of gloves will help forsure and remember death grips our for Vulcans.:tongue:
hey tom. welcome to the group. I get a little numbness sometimes also, but like everyone said, I use gloves and progrip gelgrips. They are about $10 at the local dealer and install in a couple minutes. The gloves I use were actually from ebay and I got them for about $30 which I thought was pretty good for joe rocket armored race style gloves... even with these and not gripping tight, somtimes I feel some tingling, I just speed up for a sec then coast and drop my right hand don low to get some blood quickly... It helps.
