After we get the jokes out the way, any ideas why my wrists ache after riding?

I’m guessing its cos I have too much weight on them, I ride with a 100mm flat stem, will swapping that for a shorter (90mm) stem with a bit of a rise help?

Any other ideas?

Slow your rebound down.

Alternatively strengthen your wrists by subjecting your old fella to copious amounts of *anking. Don’t forget to use your left hand too.

Thanks – hadnt thought about rebound, will try that too

Move your seat back a little so you are not leaning on the bars so much? I thought when ideally positioned your hands shouldn’t be bearing your weight at all, thats what your legs/ass is for. I could be wrong though.

I was actually thinking that other way round – getting an in line seatpost would keep more weight on my ass no? If I move saddle back I’d be more stretched and more weight on wrists? Not sure.

Ah yeah maybe actually.. I shall rephrase to “have a fiddle with your saddle position” then 🙂 I can remember altering mine and suddenly my hands were kind of hovering on the bars as opposed to bearing most of my weight. Stopped me getting wrist pain as after busting my left wrist last year it gets tired quicker than the right 🙂

i’ve started using the powerball thats been sitting in a drawer for months since the initial novelty diminished… a few mins each day seems to have helped my wrist ache and strengthened my grip (the muscles in my fingers would hurt like hell on anything too rooty as i would hold on for my life)

Yeah, my riding is quite rooty, hence i think i may be holding too tight!

All good answers above. I would add to check the angle of your brake levers. I have seen some that are set so high or low that you have to force the hand and wrist into a poor position to cover/use the brakes. When stood on the bike in the attack position I find the best position is so that the hand and wrist is straight with the arm.

+1 on the power ball. If you can get it started they are good.

Powerball with help so will padded gloves.