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A very good reason to ride a sport type motorcycle
dilligaf:
This pass September on a ride to New England with my son in law I experience sever back pain when I stepped just wrong at a state park in Vermont. I was riding the K75S and while riding, the pain was greatly reduced in fact, four days later the pain was gone. ;D
Early November the pain returned with a vengeance. I could hardly walk but, with great effort I could get on my motorcycles. While riding, the pain was greatly reduced. The diagnosis is spinal stenosis. I told the doctor about the motorcycle and, once she understood it was a sport bike, she agreed that riding a motorcycle would be beneficial. Leaning forward relieves the pressure on the nerves that are being pinched by the spine.
I switched from cruisers to sport bikes about 1980 and never looked back. I have preached, often to no avail, that an upright cruiser type motorcycle is not a good choose, both from a handling and health point of view. I understood the handling but never understood the health thing. I just knew that at the end of the day I preferred a sport bike to a cruiser. This is what I found on the web and it supports the doctor's statement.
Patients are typically more comfortable while flexed forward. Examples of activity modification for treatment of spinal stenosis might include: walking while bent over and leaning on a walker or shopping cart instead of walking upright; stationary biking (leaning forward on the handlebars) instead of walking for exercise; sitting in a recliner instead of on a straight-back chair.
So......for you stenosis suffers, is there a sport bike in your future. :BEER:
Matt
Kiwi_Roy:
Another reason not to sell my V11 SPORT ;-T
Kev m:
Looks like it only effects 8-11% of the population, so I'm thinking claiming there's a general health disadvantage to an upright motorcycle might be more than a bit of a stretch.
dilligaf:
Not a stretch for me. Right now getting on and off is my primary problem. ::( Once on I can ride pain free for hours. ;-T I suspect riding a cruiser where you depend on a back rest to reduce spinal compression may work. I wouldn't know as I have never ridden that type of motorcycle.
The problem with relying on a motorcycle to relieve the pain is that-sooner or later-you have go get off the SOB. :( :BEER:
Matt
Guzzistajohn:
I'm most comfy on my dual sport sitting position, not so far foreward so I don't have keep my head held back like I'm looking up all the time. I also enjoy my field of view better. I can see over SUV's Just me<shrug>
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