Stand with your hands by your sides, loosely closed into a fist with a pen in each hand. Now, bend your elbows so your hands are out in front of you. If you have kept your wrists unmoved, the thumb-end of the pens will be facing towards the ceiling. Or more precisely, if using a clock reference, your right pen will point to 11 o'clock, the left to 1 o'clock.
Now, imagine those pens are the grips on your mountain bike handlebars. Turn your hands until they approximate the position of your hands on your grips. Chances are your pens are now pointing at 8 o'clock (right) and 4 o'clock (left). You will note that to maintain this position your shoulder muscles are working extremely hard to hold your elbows so far apart, and how hard your wrist and forearm muscles are contracting to turn your palms towards the floor.
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This natural position is a long way from where your hands actually grip
Back in the trailblazing days of mountain biking it was decided that cutting the ends off the wrap-around handlebars allowed for the ideal confirmation of weight distribution and control for piloting one's Schwinn down a scree slope. This led to the birth of the traditional flat handlebar, placing the cyclist's hands palm-down.
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