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I'm going on an unexpected alps trip on Friday and haven't been riding big stuff for a while. I had a 'hard freeride' ride a couple of weekends ago which caused blisters under my clauses, which have now fallen off to leave no hard skin at all.
I remember my amputee cousin putting skin hardening cream on his stump to prevent blisters; anyone know what it is?
white spirit, piss or vinegar is always suggested for guitarists fingers!
Start playing with a bucket of wet sand
MTFU?
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Take some surgical tape and tape the soft parts up. That's what the guys did in t'Alps last week.
Surgical spirit - works on the ffet anyway
Get a proper job.
Get w*nking! 🙂
"I'm going on an unexpected alps trip on Friday"
Bastard - buy some decent gloves! Taking the new bike?
p155
I've found if you don't have the calluses built up already, then next best is to just look after your hands to stop the skin breaking up and blistering. So at the end of each day moisturise them. If you know you have real problems, then get some mepore tape (think that's what i mean, the stretchy micropore stuff) and tape your hands up the start of each day.
I used to use surgical spirit to toughen up my fingertips back in my musical instrument playing days.
In a single run of cwmcarn last weekend I managed to go from calloused hands to having blisters with the tops ripped off. Rim tape kept them comfy the next day, it actually did a better job than did micropore last time I used that. It seems to have enough stiffness to stop it just bunching together and sliding down my thumb.
Get some proper athletic tape & use gym chalk too
Oh good, so I'm not being a complete tos5er then! 😉
@ Sam yeah got the bike yesterday and taking it [u]completely[/u] standard - Totems coming later.
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The tape idea sounds good, I have no idea where to get surgical spirit!
What's happened to the Pitch then FJ? That's THE perfect bike for the job, IME!
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boots, or a.n.other chemist shop.
slap a brick wall repeatedly for a few hours?
used to offer the bottle of surgical spirit to all the new lads at the marquee firm and they would just look at us funny, by the second day they were bathing their hands in the stuff in the morning
Do what Badly Drawn Boy does and cover your fingers/hands in superglue.
Plunge hands one after the other into a tray of heated sand. Saw that in a Bruce Lee film, so it must work.
wee Wee every time worked on my feet in the jungle so must work on hands
Surgical spirit is the only way to get "man" hands in short time
*plans to go to the chemist in the morning..
... will report back
PeterPoddy
What's happened to the Pitch then FJ? That's THE perfect bike for the job, IME!
Yeah... alpsified it tonight, big tyres, bashring, serviced, up-down seatpin thing
... I think it is the tool for the Mega. I'm just taking the BigHit for a laugh.
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surgical spirit
Just moisturise using pure Dot 4 each morning.
climb on! bar is excellent for keeping the skin on your hands supple and therefore tough
http://www.kudubikes.co.uk/shop/26/
go climbing on gritstone, can't hold a cup of coffee after that but it toughens the skin up no end.
It is actually recommended for making skin harder on the label!
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