[RBW] Re: Riv handlebars and back pain-your experience?

I have always run a suspension seat past since my first back surgery. The small hits take a toll. A suspension seatpost saves energy too, as you don't have to unweight the seat constantly to

[RBW] Re: Riv handlebars and back pain-your experience?

Interesting thoughts, all. I share Patrick's concern re body weight and saddles with springs, as I weigh 165. A well broken-in Brooks is already a sprung saddle in essence. Fore and aft position generally has not been an issue for me using roughly KOPS, but I'm not very compulsive about it.

[RBW] Re: Riv handlebars and back pain-your experience?

Sadly, I am entirely too familiar with the issue of back pain. In 2013, I ruptured my L5-S1 disc badly enough to require surgery to prevent permanent disability. The MRI I had prior to surgery identified non-trivial problems all along my spine; annular tears in two discs, bulged disks in two mor

Re: [RBW] Re: Riv handlebars and back pain-your experience?

Note that (at least with my experience using the Flyer and a couple of wide sprung models) that spring performance depends in part on the rider's weight. I tried of Flyer off road after finding a suspension seatpost very comfortable on washboard (the post, a CODA, was cheap and squeaked and I retur

[RBW] Re: Riv handlebars and back pain-your experience?

I had lower back pain from having my saddle too far back. Moving closer to KOPS helped--it may not work for everyone but it seems to work for me... Steve On Sunday, February 15, 2015 at 2:56:57 PM UTC-5, alan lavine wrote: > > Hello All...Thought I would share this, as I'm sure I'm not the onl

[RBW] Re: Riv handlebars and back pain-your experience?

Back in 2012 I somehow started getting low back pain while riding. I felt as if lots of road shock was traveling through the bike and into my lower back and I would hurt during, but mostly after riding for the rest of the day. Thought it was me or a fit problem. I even posted on here about it

[RBW] Re: Riv handlebars and back pain-your experience?

Back in 2012 I somehow started getting low back pain while riding. I felt as if lots of road shock was traveling through the bike and into my lower back and I would hurt during, but mostly after riding for the rest of the day. Thought it was me or a fit problem. I even posted on here about it s