Aching shoulders in the wind...

The one thing I sometimes do, not mentioned above, is take one "Aleve" tablet before a long ride, depending on how I feel. A couple of Advil work OK, but the Aleve is better. Regardless, I carry some with me, just because it can make all the difference between a good ride and just wanting to get it over with.

What also helps me is to tighten and hold different muscle groups for 5 - 10 seconds, a few repetitions each, as often as necessary. It is also useful, if you belong to a gym or have some kind of resistance training equipment, to find the movements that exercise the problem areas. What works the best for me is light to moderate resistance over a wide range of motion, two or three days apart.

 

If you have some soft saddle bags, you can always try laying your legs on them while riding to be streatch out. It will look goofy, and you might run into the law who may think it is unsafe.[/QUOTE]


You can flip the passenger foot pegs down and rest your shins here. Accomplishes a similar result. With riding boots there was not scraping of the shins. I wouldn't suggest this in traffic though. Your response time to unforeseen incidents would be drastically reduced.

 

Taz and Rotten hit the nail on the head, and the advise to see a chiropractor is pretty good advise, Diet is extremely important too. All thou I have a stock screen and to me it works better than any of the double bubble type as most put the wind in the helmet, on the stock one it is below, and I'm 6'1'' Thing here is to try different things to see what works for you, what works for me won't necessarily work for you, FWIW I can but on 300 miles with no trouble, get off at gas stops and do some stretches is a good thing, just keeping lose helps big time. oh, and yea to the ear plugs on rides more than 50 miles, man that helps big time too.