Biker's Palsy - advice needed
Glad you’re making progress. I think two fingered braking is a huge area for improvement.
1. Modern brakes should be one finger, period. If they aren’t strong enough, you can do bigger rotors, 4 piston brakes, or simply any Shimano brake.
2. Part of “wrist growing pains” is your hand muscles remodeling. They need to get used to flexing with three fingers while extending with one. The hand doesn’t naturally do that, so everything is playing tug-o-war in your wrist. Eventually it’ll become subconsciously more comfortable to stick one finger out, but for now you can intermittently bring the index finger down to the grip (off the brake) when on boring terrain.
3. Keep tweaking lever tilt, distance inboard from grip, and lever pull. The goal is to have your hand as relaxed as possible while maintaining control.
4. As you become more rad, your braking/cockpit needs will change. Roll with it.
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Biker's Palsy - advice needed