Conjecture (and a CSB) but I normally get neck pain on any ride above ~50 miles.
It's normally the right hand side of my neck- not from being bent over low, but from not having a straight spine.
I'd put this down to ideopathic scoliosis, and decided to a) do lots of planks and b) try to HTFU.
However, last week I rode a hire bike that had a saddle with a channel down the middle.
Not only did I have no neck pain, I also had zero lower back pain.
I'm wondering now whether I was sitting to one side on my saddle, leading to the whole curvy spine thing.
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Conjecture (and a CSB) but I normally get neck pain on any ride above ~50 miles.
It's normally the right hand side of my neck- not from being bent over low, but from not having a straight spine.
I'd put this down to ideopathic scoliosis, and decided to a) do lots of planks and b) try to HTFU.
However, last week I rode a hire bike that had a saddle with a channel down the middle.
Not only did I have no neck pain, I also had zero lower back pain.
I'm wondering now whether I was sitting to one side on my saddle, leading to the whole curvy spine thing.