Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 5:00 am
one easy tip to keep hands from cramping and such is to flex your fingers out while riding. I do this every few minutes, just stretch them out either still on the bar or not, then wiggle them a little, this will get blood flowing and help your muscles a bunch.
as far as getting up with less weight on the hands, thats entirely possible. I dont know if you have clipons or a handbar, but either one is changable to something different that can move you back, or forward for that matter. it did take a couple thousand miles to get really comfortable in the saddle of my SVS, but now I can go all day on it. a nice way to keep your back happier is to stop every half hour or less when you're still new to the bike, walk around for a bit, touch your toes, twist your torso, crack your neck, flail your arms around a bit, do a little crazy backwoods hick dance jitter thingy. get moving a bit, get everything realigned and all the blood moving again. another idea is that if you are going far and its not entirely uncomfortable, lay on the tank while riding, wont work on many bikes but does just fine on mine, relieves all lower back tension, increases neck tension. also, I have had some good success holding onto the bar at the end of my thumb and curling my knuckles around, which sits you up higher a bit, only use this while cruising. for some reason my elbows keep loving to bow out and kinda lock while there, if I keep my mind to have them stay in and bent my hands feel so much better. you could also try dry humping the tank a bit while riding, sounds odd, but give it a little love now and then and the movement will help your back adjust itself, get some hip gyrations in there too, do it up right you know.... at stop lights throw her in nuetral and twist up on the bike, grab right ahold of the tank and tail and force your twist into cracking your back or at least a good stretch. shrug your shoulders a bunch too, helps. a good way to restore feeling to your hands is to drop that hand down to your side, elbow straight, spread fingers wide and level to the ground, and shrug your shoulder a few times, you can feel the blood pumping into your fingers. at stop lights you can also bend backwards and see if you can touch the back of your helmet to the tail.
these things have helped me, hopefully they can help you enjoy your new machine tooo
as far as getting up with less weight on the hands, thats entirely possible. I dont know if you have clipons or a handbar, but either one is changable to something different that can move you back, or forward for that matter. it did take a couple thousand miles to get really comfortable in the saddle of my SVS, but now I can go all day on it. a nice way to keep your back happier is to stop every half hour or less when you're still new to the bike, walk around for a bit, touch your toes, twist your torso, crack your neck, flail your arms around a bit, do a little crazy backwoods hick dance jitter thingy. get moving a bit, get everything realigned and all the blood moving again. another idea is that if you are going far and its not entirely uncomfortable, lay on the tank while riding, wont work on many bikes but does just fine on mine, relieves all lower back tension, increases neck tension. also, I have had some good success holding onto the bar at the end of my thumb and curling my knuckles around, which sits you up higher a bit, only use this while cruising. for some reason my elbows keep loving to bow out and kinda lock while there, if I keep my mind to have them stay in and bent my hands feel so much better. you could also try dry humping the tank a bit while riding, sounds odd, but give it a little love now and then and the movement will help your back adjust itself, get some hip gyrations in there too, do it up right you know.... at stop lights throw her in nuetral and twist up on the bike, grab right ahold of the tank and tail and force your twist into cracking your back or at least a good stretch. shrug your shoulders a bunch too, helps. a good way to restore feeling to your hands is to drop that hand down to your side, elbow straight, spread fingers wide and level to the ground, and shrug your shoulder a few times, you can feel the blood pumping into your fingers. at stop lights you can also bend backwards and see if you can touch the back of your helmet to the tail.
these things have helped me, hopefully they can help you enjoy your new machine tooo