Subject: RE: Aero causing headaches? dalessit - 2009-08-26 12:06 PM Did you get your bike professionally fit by someone that knew what they were doing? (unfortunately professional does not equal know what they were doing...)
A bit of soreness in the neck can be expected if you aren't used to riding in aero but if it doesn't go away then maybe want to look at your fit. No on the fit. I'm only using a $250 rode bike for now. I do know that I am too stretched out because of the angle of my arms. I have moved the seat forward but it's as far as it can go right now. I will either need to have a different seat post or something to adjust. I will put some money and effort into it for the winter training period. It occured to me that I got mild headaches when I first got my sport touring motorcycle. It's a Yamaha FZ6 which seats you between that of a sport bike and cruiser so you do have to look up a little if you are positioned with your butt further back. I changed my seating to being more upright and it went away. I was told at the Bethesda Naval Hospital that I have a compressed disk in my neck so maybe that is part of the problem. I know that by just rotating my head today I can hear a lot of bizarre grinding noises. I may have to do a fitting as well as the stretching stuff too but for now I'm going to back off the aero for a little while. It just sucks because I feel like I can generate more power from that position. |