i hurt so much right now

[SplatSpeed]

Ok so saturday i am so happy and i go to choley to get my new bike.

i ride home 320 miles to the south coast. i am sore and ach getting home at 11am, long day very windy and very tense ride on new tyres.

sunday lovley weather, hamilton wins the GP and the bike is just mocking me. "you are to sore to ride me"

so i just up and get on the bike and go up bury hill and the surronding areas. another 50 miles and i get home and sit down and relax.

1 hour later i am imobilised as my hip has gone into spasism for me ignoring all the pain.

hopefully it will have died down for friday.

[Dakkon]

You big girl, just go out and ride it some more, prove that you are the boss!

[SplatSpeed]

Dakkon said:

You big girl, just go out and ride it some more, prove that you are the boss!

thats what i did sunday

[Sossige]

Dakkon said:

You big girl, just go out and ride it some more, prove that you are the boss!

Yeah, "no pain no gain"

(Hope the aches get better soon)

[Rubin215]

Did 650 miles in one day on a Transalp two weeks ago; that's pain!

For a bike supposedly designed for gentle touring the seat is absolutely crap (and it's gutless and needs an extra gear...).

[SplatSpeed]

Rubin215 said:

Did 650 miles in one day on a Transalp two weeks ago; that's pain!

For a bike supposedly designed for gentle touring the seat is absolutely crap (and it's gutless and needs an extra gear...).

gutless hmm well agree to differ. my injuriies are existing conditions and i shouldn't have been riding that long or hard i havn't healed properly

[Chilli]

Weeeeeeell, you only live once. What's happening on Friday?

[SplatSpeed]

Chilli said:

Weeeeeeell, you only live once. What's happening on Friday?

day off to go out

[FeatherZ]

lol i get pains in my stomach after riding hard even if it is only for a hour, think i might have a hernia, lol

[y2blade]

glad you are doing ok on the new bike, well apart from the hip pain

got any pictures of the bike?

Edited by y2blade on Monday 26th May 22:08

[Lustfish]

Ibuprofen and then off out on the bike again

[m3psm]

Try bar risers or a custom (Corbin type) seat.

I fitted both to mine and it transformed the comfort. I did 300 miles yesterday with no problem

Before you spend money check your riding position and try to isolate where the aches start. That should help isolate the initial problem.

Part of my original problem was that I was putting too much weight on my wrists, even with the risers. Once I made a concious effort to support by weight from my body instead of all on the bars, it made a massive improvement. This is when the seat started to become really uncomfortable after about 50 miles. Fitted a gel-pad seat and now it's pretty comfy, no matter how long I ride for

[SplatSpeed]

m3psm said:

Try bar risers or a custom (Corbin type) seat.

I fitted both to mine and it transformed the comfort. I did 300 miles yesterday with no problem

Before you spend money check your riding position and try to isolate where the aches start. That should help isolate the initial problem.

Part of my original problem was that I was putting too much weight on my wrists, even with the risers. Once I made a concious effort to support by weight from my body instead of all on the bars, it made a massive improvement. This is when the seat started to become really uncomfortable after about 50 miles. Fitted a gel-pad seat and now it's pretty comfy, no matter how long I ride for

thanks i am going to lower the seat and set the rear shock to the soft setting

but i think the main problem is existing injuries and not letting them heal. also gripping the handle bars with the vulcan death grip dosn't help need to learn to relax.

[m3psm]

SplatSpeed said:

thanks i am going to lower the seat and set the rear shock to the soft setting

but i think the main problem is existing injuries and not letting them heal. also gripping the handle bars with the vulcan death grip dosn't help need to learn to relax.

Lowering the seat should help your wrists, but it will make your knees bend more, so not great if you have dodgy knees too. The suspension should reduce jarring but will affect the handling so don't go too drastic. Do it in stages.

Relaxing will make the biggest difference. Find a familiar road and just coast down it weaving around with gentle couter-steer inputs. You'll soon realise that you can comfortably steer the bike with by leaning alone and that no effort is really required from your hands at all. All the "death-grip" does is makes you tense and induce aching. Do some riding on roads that have light traffic when you have no rush and just relax and enjoy the scenery (but not in a Chilli "hedge appreciation" way)

[SplatSpeed]

m3psm said:

SplatSpeed said:

thanks i am going to lower the seat and set the rear shock to the soft setting

but i think the main problem is existing injuries and not letting them heal. also gripping the handle bars with the vulcan death grip dosn't help need to learn to relax.

Lowering the seat should help your wrists, but it will make your knees bend more, so not great if you have dodgy knees too. The suspension should reduce jarring but will affect the handling so don't go too drastic. Do it in stages.

Relaxing will make the biggest difference. Find a familiar road and just coast down it weaving around with gentle couter-steer inputs. You'll soon realise that you can comfortably steer the bike with by leaning alone and that no effort is really required from your hands at all. All the "death-grip" does is makes you tense and induce aching. Do some riding on roads that have light traffic when you have no rush and just relax and enjoy the scenery (but not in a Chilli "hedge appreciation" way)

my knees are fine. the suspension has two settings on a switch hard or soft.

Chilli "hedge appreciation" sorry chilli but

[Chilli]

Really going off you lot!!

[m3psm]

Chilli said:

Really going off you lot!!

Sorry, but as soon as I typed "scenery" I thought of you