As someone suffering from vibration sensitive carpal and cubital tunnel syndrome I'll add my tuppence worth:
Revgrips: amazing at reducing vibration fatigue but only if you have small to medium hands. I have large hands and they are just too narrow so I end up overgripping, leading to forearm fatigue! I've ended up back on my sensus meaty paws /ergon GA2 fat (full sus) and wolftooth mega fat silicone grips (hardtail). A real shame as otherwise they are superb. I hope they develop some grips in the >34mm diameter range to cater for larger than average hands.
Bars and backsweep: 8-10 degrees seems good for me, Raceface atlas (8 deg) on the full sus with greater sweep better on the hardtail for more xc stuff (nukeproof horizons - 10 deg). I have an sqlab 30x 12deg sweep bar, and it is more comfortable, but only in a very limited range; I can have it set up for climbing or descending, not both. I also run 31.8 bars, no point adding unnecessary stiffness!
I tried Spank vibrocore bars; not sure I noticed anything special in terms of vibration but they were a nice shape. Padded endura humvee gloves made more of a difference.
Jan. 20, 2021, 12:44 p.m. - Shackleton
As someone suffering from vibration sensitive carpal and cubital tunnel syndrome I'll add my tuppence worth: Revgrips: amazing at reducing vibration fatigue but only if you have small to medium hands. I have large hands and they are just too narrow so I end up overgripping, leading to forearm fatigue! I've ended up back on my sensus meaty paws /ergon GA2 fat (full sus) and wolftooth mega fat silicone grips (hardtail). A real shame as otherwise they are superb. I hope they develop some grips in the >34mm diameter range to cater for larger than average hands. Bars and backsweep: 8-10 degrees seems good for me, Raceface atlas (8 deg) on the full sus with greater sweep better on the hardtail for more xc stuff (nukeproof horizons - 10 deg). I have an sqlab 30x 12deg sweep bar, and it is more comfortable, but only in a very limited range; I can have it set up for climbing or descending, not both. I also run 31.8 bars, no point adding unnecessary stiffness! I tried Spank vibrocore bars; not sure I noticed anything special in terms of vibration but they were a nice shape. Padded endura humvee gloves made more of a difference.