Just a thought Would a thicker pair of gloves help I always wore thicker gloves otherwise my hand would ache Worth a try?
I’m fairly sure it’s not the motorbike, so I’m not sure what has made it flare up. GP has given me some horse sized ibuprofen, which have worked in the past.
I had trouble with finding neutral (known as ‘finding nemo’) on my 1260 PP and didn’t like the stiff clutch pull despite having QS. So I bought the Ducabike slave cylinder much lighter pull and evotech lever. Evotech lever made finding neutral worse for some reason (dealer confirmed), so went back to original lever and all pretty good. After 18 months the Ducabike slave has started leaking slightly (fine mist spray around edges) and neutral has become difficult again. Oh joy!
I get this a lot, gym, boxing, cycling....Ice really helps with the initial flare up, bag of peas wrapped in a towel works well, as you can nestle your elbow into them. Then you need to strengthen the muscles, it's actually caused elsewhere and not the elbow. Lots of exercises on youtube, do the strengthening exercises when the inflammation has gone down, the scare tissue also needs massage, or it will quickly return.
I don’t know if this is of any use, but, years ago I had a Frazer 1000 and the standard bars gave me forearm ache. I always felt the standard bars (which were canted towards the rider) put you in an unnatural position. I changed them to Renthal 758s and bingo, the problem went away.
Check how you sleep. If you lie on your front, with arm underneath and bent fully night after night and notice you have an elbow ache and achey forearm.......
Bastard tennis elbow, I’ve had it for the last 2 months. Only thing that has helped so far is beer. Pulling brake lever doesn’t hurt, picking up a cup of coffee does (hand rotated 90°). I feel your pain.
Fit an Oberon clutch slave cylinder. Lighter pull. No, you’re not too old for that bike at 58. Give yourself a slap and don’t ask that question again for a couple of decades.
I have my first outbreak of tennis elbow recently, think chucking a polystyrene glider my son found on dog walk did it! I'm a chimney sweep, so using rods every day makes it worse. Ice & 400 mg Ibrofen helps, also doing excerise, pull ups & press-ups etc seems to help, do a bit of heavy bag punching which is OK if you don't lock elbow joint out accidentally. Using a screw driver really aggravates it!!
Took 6 months before mine calmed down enough to get a proper grip on anything. And now I know what caused it.
