Drink water, lots of it. I pour a pint of water with every cup of tea/coffee I have and don't make another cup until I have drunk the water. Do Pilates, I go to an all blokes class. I'm not old and I'm fit as the proverbial fiddle. I want to stay this way. Drink more water.
It's your old body communicating with your head. The message is; Can I sit on a nice comfy Multistrada now? My old 996 used to kill me!
get this hip spasm thing quite a bit when riding some times have to get off the bike and walk around to sort it always put it down to accident damage after a motorcycle tank forced my legs further apart than good
OK - got it ...... Do Pilates, drink more water, exercise, stretches, little bit of quinine, eat more salt, no breakfast .... phew !! That's before I check the weather forecast, make sure the family are all sorted, move the cars of the drive, unlock the garage and bike, squeeze into my leathers, decide on my route and then realise I've got to be back in an hour because we're going out. .... It's hard work this biking hobby.
apparently there is two types of cramp, 1 is possibly cause by too much salt and the other not enough... anyhu, i get it and im only young.. 4 years back (at the age of 39) i rode to Devon from london no prob but while there i had hip pain.. on the ride back this got worse and transferred to my groin, had to stop for the night in Redding as i couldnt ride for the pain. After a hot bath, bottle of baileys and a good sleep i made it home before the pain rendered me unable to walk and i spent the next four weeks in hospital having every test known to man conducted on my leg muscles (which lost nearly a stone each over that time). No answer was ever found as to why this happened and it wasnt till they started me on steriods that a week later i walked out and have never had a problem since!!! Aint life strange at times?
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I get it too, although much less with Ducatis. Had a Honda and that thing ended up like a torture rack. Everytime, 30-45 minutes after starting off that was it, hips and thighs in absolute agony. Something to do with the bike width apparently. Sat on an 1198 at Silverstone and was amazed how comfy it was, went out and bought an 848 in the spring after and haven't really had too many issues since. Odd cramp here and there when I haven't ridden for a while but generally fine.....guess I'll just have to stick to Ducatis....
Pilates is awesome stuff, proper sex exercise! don't underestimate how much of a ninja a Pilates person is!! This. The sciatic nerve is as thick as your thumb and goes through a small hole in your pelvis. I had a traumatic neck injury that gave me a lot of problems over the years and it wasn't until I studied Alexander Technique for many months that I found out how much your posture effects everything else. The great side effect was that various problems I had had all my life similar to the hip spasm stuff just seemed to melt away. Race bikes are particularly bad at putting you into a poor posture if you do not stay aware of it. Your pelvis tends to rotate forward (and giving you a pot belly!) and your lower back and small of the neck tighten up, exactly like an exagerated desk worker. If you concentrate on keeping your spine 'long and tall' and your knees going forward to put your pelvis back , then it helps with all these things. It's an ongoing thing that you never quite fully work out but it's life changing, in particular if you have had some kind of trauma in the past that your body still physically and mentally remembers.
