Hi Irreguleur, He may have problems with swept back bars. Here is a hypothesis. Cycling is one of those modern activities that anatomically we are not built to do but we can do it but doing something that we are not built to do has risk. Risk being we develop health issues and possibly deformities. For example, we are not built to be sitting in a chair for 8 hours a day typing at a desk that long. Consequences of that is the we develop meta carpel syndrome which is repeated stress syndrome and we see this happening in all types of activities like runners who develop knee and hip issues due to warn ligaments. Cycling has the same problem in which we can develop weak bones which is a form of osteoporosis and I have seen cyclist with hump backs from being bent over on the drops from many years of cycling. I think some of those issue can be resolved if strengthening is part of the regime and activities like cycling is not taken to extreme and balance with stretching and strength training. I do not know if Alan has deformities that may be contributing to his back pain while cycling and swept back may not be the solution either since a more vertical position may increase or decrease stress on his back. Strengthening may not be a solution either which is why I think he should get a fit or do some research on how to be on a bicycle and see if he can get his body more in line with that and experiment.
On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 9:53 AM, Irreguleur <ja...@harring.nyc> wrote: > Let’s not throw swept back bars into the same category of flats. Very > different. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
