Since I've started riding again in the last year so I have pain in both wrists. It's just with straight handlebars. I have bar ends on my old mountain bike that let me turn my wrists. I will either move them to the new bike, or get a different bar.

I rode for a few miles on and off road with wrist braces, and that helped a great deal. Maybe it's my wrist position.

We got a new bike for my daughter this weekend. The local bike shop (Cooper's Bike in Stillwater) cut us a good deal on a Giant MTX 225. The two key points for me were gears (21 speed) and wheels (24-inch). She is about 4'2" tall and it fits her well. Hopefully she'll get at least two or three years out of it.

Other features:
- Aluminum frame, although it's a funky shape that doesn't lend itself to clamping on stuff
- Water bottle holder, on the bottom side of the down tube, so that the water bottle gets covered in junk

I have been doing a lot of cycling this fall, and I have a couple more bikes in the garage.