This isn't a thread about wanking. More one about the wrist-heavy riding position on a 900SS IE and if there's a way of relieving it? Any tips hints or anodised clever bits? Ta
My problem is my neck, rather than wrists. It's fine if I'm moving fast and my head is supported by windblast but when I slow down, my neck really suffers. :/
So far we have a vote for Pilates and hot yoga. Any other tips to do with actual positioning and maybe something to raise the bars while on the bike?
Get a brush shaft, cut it in half, long boot lace from a DM boot and a massive tin of Heinz beans. Forearms like Popeye in a few weeks. Old world
but seriously, even without resorting to aftermarket bar risers you can find some improvements by fine-tuning the angle of the bars and even the positioning of the levers. I think there are a few threads on here on the subject.
Use your thighs Try and move back in the seat a bit I suffered with neck and shoulder ache My wrists seemed ok Hence why I can't ride a sports bike as my shoulders are knackered
Grip puppies. Makes it easier on the hands and possibly the wrists. At just over a tenner, worth a try. I like them.
regret to advise from personal "IE Supersport" experience I had no success in my efforts to cure similar issues to yours, I accept we're all different shapes and sizes so what works for one may not for anther, I tried different bars, LSL and Tomaselli, and a different screen "MRA" the fairing is too close to the top yoke and clocks to explore the potential range offered, and butchering the fairing was not an option, but the final compromise was no real improvement. Still active in Pilates gave up Yoga (kept falling asleep) and have the usual biker injuries to contend with, scaphoid and radius and vertebrae fractures, my chiropractor suggested I stopped riding bikes when I complained of neck pain, damage in evidence from the x-rays. Tried the ST2, more like it but only made sense 2 up, to my mind at least, the SS carby ergonomics are bearable for me so I built my project frankenstein using the injection running gear transplanted to an SS frame, it's still WIP and this year I'm experimenting yet again in search of comfort, in conclusion I'm afraid some Ducati's and comfort appear mutually exclusive. All the best.
You could try Kinesiology tape on both neck and back muscle groups and around your wrists. I used it for the first time on my back and neck to do a trackday at Mallory last year and it did work in my case and I felt much fresher at the end of the day. Although I didn't need it specifically as I have no injuries from riding I did find the extra support made a lot of difference. I only tried it as it was in Aldi for something like a quid a box, so I bought two boxes and found it so good that I got a few more. kinesiology tape | eBay
There are no easy answers. I feel your pain. Good thread here, but it shows how much work is involved in trying to improve the situation. http://ducatiforum.co.uk/threads/90...ble-bars-fitted-step-by-step.4919/#post-62783 I toyed with the idea of a cheap approach to changing the angle of the bars - not the "swap the clip-ons from one side to the other" option, which some suggest (results I think in bars angled upwards) but making new bars to fit into the clip-on mounts by cutting them out of a set of generic flat "drag bars", in order to have a slight upward angle where the bar comes out of it's clip-on mounting. Unfortunately I found that the Ducati clip-ons seem to have a marginally smaller tube diameter than standard off-the shelf bars, so I have canned that idea for the time being. I don't want to spend lots of money on adjustable bars, butcher the fairing etc and still have little more comfort.
My wrists were under pressure when I moved from my R1 to the 848 EC SE. So much so that I thought I'd bought the wrong bike. However I rode it continuously for 3 weeks adjusting/tweaking my body position and eventually learning to ride it properly (arms horizontally) and the pain eased and disappeared, and I found out what a fantastic bike it actually was!
