Clayton, I've been there. I went to a recumbent and it cured it until I could figure out other things (clean up diet, strengthen back, sleep with wrist brace, take more breaks from intensive activities which caused flare ups). Now I have a recumbent and a couple of DF bikes and after years of being totally "'bent," I'm riding the DFs almost exclusively. I no longer sleep with the wrist brace but I wake with numbness and pain some mornings (nothing like before though). Pain is not gone but it's no longer debilitating.
Since you can't abide rough roads on the tour easy, you might consider trying a recumbent with suspension (bike or trike). Of course, this after you've exhausted the tweaking options on your current bike. As for the tour easy, you can unweight over rough roads if the pedals are close enough to the seat back (push yourself up off the seat bottom). Also pneumatic suspension. With a disc brake in back, you'd be able to get a pretty fat tire on there and run it low pressure. I have a 37 and it looks like there's room for much more. Anyway, you're on your own personal journey and if my experience is any indication, it's going to be along process. Good luck! • Perry -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
