Hi all, been riding a few years now and around 2 months ago I tore my callus off whilst riding, I let it heal and new one formed. Now it's getting really sore when riding. Anyone know how to resolve something like this
by Natural-Union4730
Hi all, been riding a few years now and around 2 months ago I tore my callus off whilst riding, I let it heal and new one formed. Now it's getting really sore when riding. Anyone know how to resolve something like this
by Natural-Union4730
16 Comments
Gloves
Gloves? Try that.
Just get over it and keep going, that way the new callus is as strong as gloves. Speaking from experience
Hit it with your purse
You can prevent flappers by taking good care of your skin. Sanding down the callus helps a lot. You also need to moisturize your skin to keep it nice and strong.
Keep you skin dry while riding. Gloves and chalk can help a lot. Wet skin gets soft making it easy to tear apart.
These are basically the same tip climbers will give you.
Trim them before they get big enough to split. Gloves don’t help everyone I always had worse calluses using gloves due to the way I held my bars.
If you take the top off them so they’re flatter they won’t be pinched when you’re grabbing the bars, you can do it with sandpaper/file or even a sharp knife just don’t do what I did this morning and go too far so it stings all day.
A nice set of gloves helps and they are actually pretty comfortable to ride with
Try sanding it down with fine sand paper/griptape. That’s a rock climbing trick they use to prevent the dead skin from breaking loose from the fresh skin, which would cause the irritation before just tearing off completely.
Clipping it can also help like an above commenter said, but I’d go the sand paper personally.
Sand them down and moisturise your hands regularly. Calluses create pressure points on your palm with can become uncomfortable and/or catch and tear off. Get some fine sand paper and sand them smooth and regularly use moisturiser
Buddy of mine used to take a razor blade when his got huge and cut them off then superglue the meat back on so he could keep riding. Way harder than me, I just got some riding gloves. When they got bad enough I’d go easy for a week or two. If you lotion the heck out of your hands and sleep with them in a pair of socks it softens em up too.
Gloves are your friend.
Tea tree oil. I think you have candida fungus. And gloves
Gloves or hand tats… haha I run cult vans grips and not have as hard callus as I did on odi / mushroom grips. But I’m odd
Sometimes the type of grips help too. The og ODI longnecks are my go to they seem to last as well as not tear the crap outta my hands
Sometimes swapping out for a different grip help, I can never ride with gloves.
Look into the odi longneck super soft grips.