My back hurts - advice please.

Oooh not bad, yer know, feckin cold, beginning to wish SVs had heated seats, a roof, windscreen wipers, and perhaps four wheels for better stability in the ice

Actually, thinking about it - erm, you're not gonna want to hear this... but I doubt a CBR RRRRRRrrrrRRR is doing your back any favours? Guessing the SV has a slightly less bent riding position - swapsies?

I know what you mean, but then I see people stuck in traffic and the cold just dissappears! Having said that I am feeling the cold more than ever - must be getting old eh!

You'd be suprised, the opposite is actually true. The SV seemed a lot longer to a short ar$e like me with the bars further away and therefore I was bent over and constantly reaching forward. The RR is shorter and I feel more in control of the bike as I am less stretched, it is also lighter and therefore much more manoeverable in slow moving traffic for me anyway.

When I got on the first one I tested I immediately felt comfortable, so all thoughts of GSXR's went out the window.

Swapsies - erm no thanks........although I still love SV's.

Cycling helps too, but interferes with my running........

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I hurt my back a long long time ago........one thing that was said to me was, once you've got a bad back, you will always have a bad back.

Originally Posted by MiniMatt

Oooh not bad, yer know, feckin cold, beginning to wish SVs had heated seats, a roof, windscreen wipers, and perhaps four wheels for better stability in the ice

Actually, thinking about it - erm, you're not gonna want to hear this... but I doubt a CBR RRRRRRrrrrRRR is doing your back any favours? Guessing the SV has a slightly less bent riding position - swapsies?

I find my cbr alot more comfy than my SVS, short journeys or long journeys lol

Sorry to hear that you're suffering Kev.

If you can afford it - ask your GP to refer you to an orthopaedic specialist privately. Takes the waiting out of things, whatever treatment s/he prescribes will almost certainly be available on the NHS, so all you're doing is getting rid of the wait and the pain to see the consultant in the first place. In fact pick up the phone to the local Nuffield Hospital now and ask them (a) do they have anyone who you can see and (b) what sort of waiting list is there and (c) how much would an initial consultation cost.

I found that sleeping interferes with my running. And drinking interferes with my cycling...

Education on the RR, something to bear in mind, kinda thinking about new bikes again although CBRs look too pretty to abuse through the mud and salt of winter for my liking. Correction, with my approach to cleaning (once a year is about it), a CBR is too pretty to abuse through winter

Originally Posted by MiniMatt

I found that sleeping interferes with my running. And drinking interferes with my cycling...

Education on the RR, something to bear in mind, kinda thinking about new bikes again although CBRs look too pretty to abuse through the mud and salt of winter for my liking. Correction, with my approach to cleaning (once a year is about it), a CBR is too pretty to abuse through winter

That is apparently what ACF50 was invented for........not many other bikes on the roads during winter especially sports bikes.

On that site now ED having a look.

The problem is with the NHS you don't really know what is available and what isn't, what your rights are or anything else.....I find it really frustrating.

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I have had a back for 25+ years and sympathise with fellow sufferers, most of the time I get on with it. Twice I have had a ride in an ambulance when the nice men have picked me up off the floor and pumped morphine into my arm saying you will be sent home in a couple of hours and they have been right.

When I first presented to my GP with the problem they got me X rayed (pre scanners) and basically said I had worn discs that allowed my lower vertebrae to occasionally rub. and I thought I had just had a painfully bad landing when I fell down a WWII slit trench on an air field from 2,500 ft.

Surprising it was to find when I took out life insurance that my back was excluded from any claim. I therefore had to get them to provide a letter to the effect that the exclusion was purely skeletal and any other disease that may effect my back was covered.

oh, and riding a sports bike can really help, When I conciously decide to arc my back the other way, as in to present a concave rather than traditional convex profile (as in bend my lower back and push my shoulders/upper back back

So apart from the occasional physio after a bad spell, it is Tramadol as and when the back and/or legs (Sciatica) demand. Daft when I need help. I have to wait weeks to get any. It would be better if I could simply phone and say my back is returning, can I start a treatment regime instead of it getting to the point when my GP has to refer me.

May be a silly suggestion, but have you tried wearing a back support


OK it's a motocross kidney belt, but I lend it to my dad when he has a bad back and he says that it makes it feel a lot better.

Originally Posted by krhall

On that site now ED having a look.

The problem is with the NHS you don't really know what is available and what isn't, what your rights are or anything else.....I find it really frustrating.

I got a Tempur mattress 4 years ago, and that has really helped too. I notice it if I stay anywhere else and can't walk as well in the morning.

Please be careful about who you see- my husband saw an osteopath and felt it made his back worse, until you know what's wrong with yours I'd be very wary..

Going privately will certainly speed things up but that's to no avail if you can't stay private all the way through- you will still wait for a cat scan or whatever they decide you need.