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From: brooks@lll-crg.ARPA (Eugene D. Brooks III)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Re: Re: SPENCO handlebar pads
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Date: Thu, 30-May-85 22:37:04 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 30 22:37:04 1985
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> Instead of buying Spenco handlebar pads from your local bike shop,
> why not buy mine?  I took them off after my first long ride using
> them.  I feel that they are inferior to Grab-ons because they are not
> thick enough.  No doubt, were they the same thickness, they would be
> superior to Grab-ons.
> 
> Note that the "long ride" I am talking about was the Mt. Hamilton
> Challenge (familiar to you SF Bay area types), which is a 130 mile
> killer ride.  After this ride I had numbness and weakness in my
> hands for several months!

I assume that the numbness and weakness in your brain that made you want
to go on that ride in the first place is permanent. :-) :-)