..and besides that would mean I am in a mid life crisis and I would insist it's actually a whole life crises, it was just cars before now.
I'm 51 in a few weeks and I've had this problem for many, many years on all models of Ducati's from 996's to Monsters. Some models are worse than others and you automatically think it's the sports bikes that aggrevate the most but generally it can happen on any of them. I am 6'3 and presumed it was my height/leg length but by the amount of replies ( unless we're all tall ) it can affect anyone. Surely sitting on a motorcycle isn't that much of an un natural position to cause that much pain... Perhaps I just need to keep sitting on the bike every night to get my legs, hip used to that position.
It's what you do when you are on it that makes issues more likely, like sitting at a desk at work (something I'm all too familiar with these days!). If you're feeling stiff or as you get more tired you tense up in all the wrong places and before you know it you're tight in the lower back, neck and rolled shoulders,etc.
I get an entire world of problems in my hips and legs, but it's as a result of injury, so I'm not a good benchmark
I get hip cramp all the time. If you learn to get rid of it off the bike, you can adapt the same cure when you're on it. To do it off the bike, stand with feet shoulder width apart. Take a step forward with the foot on the side your hip is cramping, keeping your weight on your back foot, then move the front foot inwards and across (toes pointing forward) in front of your other foot and push across until the hip cramp goes. It takes some adapting, but I can now do it whilst still on the bike by pivoting to face the side that's cramping and pushing the foot forward towards the front wheel and up towards the handlebars.
I used to get hip cramps when hanging off on left-handers. I had to be very careful how I moved in the saddle - sometimes I wasn't, and then there was agony. Eventually, I tried riding through the pain instead of pulling over and stretching out. At least, I thought they were hip cramps, at the time. I'm not so sure now. I get days when I am half-crippled with pain in my left hip, which a combination of strong co-codamol and tramadol eventually will shift. I suppose what I thought was cramp was possibly something else - whatever it might be, it doesn't show in an x-ray. It's worse in the cold and when it's damp. Too many bad landings, I guess. Not to worry
Try a decent stretch before your ride..hip circles and bring knees up to chest...lots of fluids like most have said too...I used to get them really bad, but stretching definitely helps...
I stretch my legs one at a time when riding (it hasn't made me any taller, though)......... ......and doing it will result in a nasty cramp in the thigh and hip.
Hi another oldie here who also gets it, before every ride I do what Valentino Rossi does before he races. He crouches down on his honkers and nearly goes into a ball it stretches all the leg thigh and back and shoulder muscles, believe you me it works a treat but you don T half get some strange looks off the neighbours
