What do you guys recommend for back support? I've seen several guys with different back bands. I am going to be riding down the coast to Jacksonville, NC soon (planning on 2 days down, 1 back). This will be my first long ride as a geezer and want to be prepared should my back wimp out on me 1/2 way.
Thoughts? Suggestions? Ridicule?
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Back Support
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Ken
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Re: Back Support
I dont know bout support... I wear a forcefield back "Protector" which is the only level 2 back protector on the market (I think JR has the same one rebadged under it's name as well).. Can't say if it provides support - but my back hurts less (and I have had surgery on it) allot less when I wear it..DAMNKLRRider wrote:What do you guys recommend for back support? I've seen several guys with different back bands. I am going to be riding down the coast to Jacksonville, NC soon (planning on 2 days down, 1 back). This will be my first long ride as a geezer and want to be prepared should my back wimp out on me 1/2 way.
Thoughts? Suggestions? Ridicule?
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2013 Honda CB1100
2003 Harley Davidson Wide Glide
1999 Suzuki DR350Se
Re: Back Support
I have a TLD Supermoto jacket with a built in "kidney belt". While I don't wear it for back support, I've found that I get it anyway. Any belt of that nature that forces you into an upright-ish position would do the trick, I imagine. There are many industrial back supporters with suspenders (I think even at HomeDepot/Lowes) that are of a fairly low profile (fit under your jacket).
On such a note - I've recently (after realizing where my shortcomings really are) have been into a genuine "core-muscle" exercise routine to address just this issue. My pseudo-logicky brain says that if my lower back is getting tweaked after a few hours of riding, then I must increase the endurance and strength of that area. So I bought a big rubber ball that I do crunches and "backward" situps on, and I've been tending to my leg/thigh muscles as well (as they keep the majority of me off of the fuel tank). I am hoping to see a notable improvement as summer progresses. In the very least, my wife might stop making fun of the extra belly I seem to be acquiring.
But... Great Zeus's Heavens forbid if I mention where she is "filling out".
On such a note - I've recently (after realizing where my shortcomings really are) have been into a genuine "core-muscle" exercise routine to address just this issue. My pseudo-logicky brain says that if my lower back is getting tweaked after a few hours of riding, then I must increase the endurance and strength of that area. So I bought a big rubber ball that I do crunches and "backward" situps on, and I've been tending to my leg/thigh muscles as well (as they keep the majority of me off of the fuel tank). I am hoping to see a notable improvement as summer progresses. In the very least, my wife might stop making fun of the extra belly I seem to be acquiring.
But... Great Zeus's Heavens forbid if I mention where she is "filling out".
Re: Back Support
Exercise is a word that is not part of my vocabulary. It was the first thing I quit when I retired from the military!Teethgrinder wrote:On such a note - I've recently (after realizing where my shortcomings really are) have been into a genuine "core-muscle" exercise routine to address just this issue. My pseudo-logicky brain says that if my lower back is getting tweaked after a few hours of riding, then I must increase the endurance and strength of that area. So I bought a big rubber ball that I do crunches and "backward" situps on, and I've been tending to my leg/thigh muscles as well (as they keep the majority of me off of the fuel tank). I am hoping to see a notable improvement as summer progresses.
Ken
Die young as late as possible, remember who you were before the world told you how it should be. -- Barry Morris
Die young as late as possible, remember who you were before the world told you how it should be. -- Barry Morris
Re: Back Support
Alternately a giant tank bag, big enough to lounge on, might do the trick!DAMNKLRRider wrote: Exercise is a word that is not part of my vocabulary. It was the first thing I quit when I retired from the military!
Re: Back Support
To paraphrase Mark Twain: "Doing nothing is the hardest thing. You never get to take a break.DAMNKLRRider wrote:Exercise is a word that is not part of my vocabulary. It was the first thing I quit when I retired from the military!Teethgrinder wrote:On such a note - I've recently (after realizing where my shortcomings really are) have been into a genuine "core-muscle" exercise routine to address just this issue. My pseudo-logicky brain says that if my lower back is getting tweaked after a few hours of riding, then I must increase the endurance and strength of that area. So I bought a big rubber ball that I do crunches and "backward" situps on, and I've been tending to my leg/thigh muscles as well (as they keep the majority of me off of the fuel tank). I am hoping to see a notable improvement as summer progresses.
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Re: Back Support
BTW I wore a regular orthopedic back brace while riding many years ago. It greatly relieved lower back stresses of riding. I should probably still wear it (but it shrunk :oops: ) .
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Re: Back Support
I'll see your quotemdubya wrote:To paraphrase Mark Twain: "Doing nothing is the hardest thing. You never get to take a break.
I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me. ~Mark Twain
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I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise. ~Chauncey Depew
Ken
Die young as late as possible, remember who you were before the world told you how it should be. -- Barry Morris
Die young as late as possible, remember who you were before the world told you how it should be. -- Barry Morris