Acheing hands due to cold - have I fucked my hand up

[Wonko The Sane]

Blooming freezing this morning - rode to work, took about 50 mins of motorway filtering and by the end couldn't feel my fingers.

Kept gloves on after parking and walked to sandwich shop for breakfast and then into the office.

Feeling restored

My right hand (left is fine) is aching, mainly my thumb, is this just due to being held in position while cold?

Worried as my mum has problems with her wrist from having done winter kayak racing events when my age + hereditary arthritis.
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[chickenstrip]

I wouldn't have thought that one ride in the cold would have caused permanent damage to your hand. I have ridden in cold conditions that caused very painful "hot aches" when warming up afterwards and suffered no long term ill effects.

Have you ever damaged the hand previously? Ever had frostbite to any degree in the past? If so, you may just have aggravated an old injury

Also, if you suffer any kind of circulation problems generally, it won't help, but again, you most likely haven't caused any further permanent damage with one ride.
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[Wull]

Nah you'll be fine mate,just have a vigorous wank and all will be well
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[Copycat73]

buy some electric gloves...
take some ibuprofen,
& eat a mars bar...
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[Ste]

Your mum was holding the shaft incorrectly.

Dodgy wrists from kayak racing (presumably marathon) are because of bad technique, keep hands high and rotate the torso.

[Beehive Bedlam]

I have urinated on my hands before at the roadside because they were so painfully cold and started to turn white when I urinated on them they turned red and stung a lot once in the warm they ached for several hours.

Now I use muffs when I know I am going to be commuting for more than twenty minutes in sub zero temperatures.

[conker]

[thx1138]

if you've no heated gloves, or heated bars, wear leather gloves or textile gloves with leather palms, and then every opportunity, junctions, traffic lights, stationary traffic, lean down and hug the engine , bike in neutral back brake covered, palms pressed onto engine to get a quick warm up

bit of a bugger to attempt on a motorway though so no use for you

[DrDonnyBrago]

Evidently not a fan of muffs.

That is a long commute at this time of year, with just gloves. Get wrist deep in muffs, if you are still cold fit heated grips. I've had my hands so cold I couldnt bend my knuckles, haven't been even close to that cold since I muffed up.

[MC]

[map]

As an emergency measure use a pair of rubber gloves under your bike gloves. As an even more emergency measure use those free gloves for self service diesel buyers you get at petrol station.

They will help reduce any wind chill and get you home.

If you don't want muffs I'm a fan of the 2 (or is it 3) finger gloves in winter.
M&P do some ones atm for £15 - see/click here.

FWIW I have a pair of the Buffalo ones they're selling atm for £10 and they're well worth the money. Stand up well against the £50 ones I also have.
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[Wonko The Sane]

Muffs took the paint off where they rubbed against the paint last year.

I've ordered some heated inner gloves and a cheap pair of regular winter gloves a size larger to go over them incase they don't fit into my normal gloves.

Figured 24 hour delivery, bring tools to work and I'm not hoping on fitting heated grips over the weekend
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[monkeybiker]

Get yourself a large fleece jacket that fits over your bike jacket. If it rain put a water proof light coat over the top. Doesn't need to be bike specific.

[UncleFester]

Yep - core gets cold - extremities suffer. Keep your core warmer for longer, hands will stay warmer for longer.

I'd get some barkbusters too as well as heated grips but gloves that are size bigger so you get some air movement between the finger tips and the glove ends are what you need.
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[SofaBear]

i had a set of richa gloves that were fine and really warm, but if they ever got wet they would either shrink or swell so much that they felt like they shrank. i would be in agony for days after with my pinky knuckles feeling so sore and so cramped that i could barely grip anything. Then the cold, and i mean cold, weather came in it was even worse so i got some bigger leather Held gloves. now have heated grips set on 50-70%. makes so much of a difference.

[DRZ4Hunned]

You might have Raynauds from poor circulation. I suffer quite badly from it, fingers go white/ yellow past the first knuckle and completely numb.

[Wonko The Sane]

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[Rogerborg]

[chickenstrip]

[Beehive Bedlam]

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[chickenstrip]

Every time I engage my military survival instincts, I end up down the pub
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