Collective single track mind.. help me out!
Been riding a Cotic soul for a couple of months. After a while, wherever I ride, I get bad hand pain both sides in the joints of the fingers. Its not necessarily related to braking but heavy braking doesn’t help. Round Bristol its just about bearable, had to come down the fire road at Cwmcarn today halfway down as couldn’t bear it anymore. Road a friends steel frame and an Orange 5 to see the difference- less vibration and I think had the damage not already been done today I would have been alright. My friends rode my bike- said it felt like there wasa strange vibration at all times and quite crashy. Fork and everything else is smooth…
Its a Cotic Soul frame, just serviced Fox F120 fork (new seals/oil), this was done at a bike shop so crown race etc all fine. This was happening before the service and I bought a carbon bar from here to see if it helped… unfortunately it didn’t. Otherwise its a Chris King headset and XT front wheel- all seems to be working fine.
Anyone got any ideas? Its got to be something simple but its really beginning to affect my enjoyment of riding…