🚴♂️ Inwardly Turned Hoods: Not just about looking cool…
Inwardly turned hoods look cool and might offer some aero advantages, but a bigger reason to try them is comfort. Allowing your hoods to match the natural angle of your wrists can help reduce fatigue and put you in a more natural position. 🙌
To find the angle that’s best for you, try this:
1️⃣ Relax your arms by your sides with your wrists loose and natural.
2️⃣ Lift your hands up and check the angle of your wrists.
3️⃣ Adjust your hood position to match that natural angle.
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here’s how you can find out if turning your hoods inwards is going to help you sit on your bike relax your shoulders and arms down by your side and lift your hands up keeping your wrist relaxed look at the angle that your wrist turns in at and match that position with your hood having straight Hood position for many people forces their wrist into an unnatural position rather than letting their wrist relax onto the front of the bike
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l tried this its straight up and down for me, I pretty much new this affer I oulled my Sacrum riding my gravel bike with the shifter turned in like a CAT 3 racer 😂. thanks for putting this one out Dan
Definitely a slight turn in is more comfortable.
The weird thing for me is turning my wrists in causes my elbows to flare out so it is a very slight turn for me.
Sian did this for me on my bike fit. Amazing result!!
it does look cool though
Incredible content, I have diabetes
This really depends on your shoulder width vs the width of the bar. If the bar is narrower than your shoulders, then yes. If the bar is the same width as your shoulders, then turning in the hoods will flare your elbow way out and kink your wrists inwards.
Sell my bike?!?!
I never thought it looked cool
Finally a video that actually helped figure this out
Re adjusting made me 8 mph faster 😄👌
Much better grip.
Drop handlebars are rubbish.