Is this a dumb idea? high rise bars and old-school bar ends.

[@casestudymtb]

Great take on how shoulder position and posture can influence hand numbness! So many people have that aggressive forward shoulder roll combined with poor thoracic mobility. A taller front can totally help to bring you into a more neutral posture! I wonder if sizing down frame sizes might also be worth exploring in the future? Kind of let's you do the same thing, just in a different way, and might help weight the front wheel more for those climbs!

[@superyamagucci]

Serious whitewater kayaker and enthusiastic MTBer here. I’ve found the most important thing is the angles between elbow-wrist-hand. Imagine I asked you to hold your hands out in front of you, palms down. Holding a broomstick position would be uncomfortable. Something closer to reading a crystal ball would feel more natural. This is why we use bent shaft paddles (Werner, AT for example). That extreme obviously not going to work for a bike, but apply that logic along with height, reach, width etc and it should help. Also don’t hold on too tight, you don’t need to until you need to. Never white knuckle death grip.

[@casestudymtb]

Oh man, I'm with you, I ended up with the pnw bar for the backsweep, it's helped a ton with my wrist pain... but that's pain, not numbness. It seems like the increased stack actually helped here so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@superyamagucci]

@@casestudymtb yeah increasing the stack will definitely help - less weight learning on your hands. Sorry for the epic comment before, wasn’t sure how to sum it up in a sentence. Oh also try fatter/thinner grips and see if either make a difference.