this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2023
149 points (99.3% liked)
urbanism
22576 readers
59 users here now
This was supposed to be c/traingang, so post as many train pictures as possible.
All about urbanism and transportation, including freight transportation.
Home of train gang
:arm-L::train-shining::arm-R:
Trainposts highly encouraged
Talk about supply chain issues here!
List of cool books and videos about urbanism, transit, and other cool things
Titles must be informative. Please do not title your post "lmao" or use the tired "_____ challenge" format.
Archive links for reactionary sites, including the BBC.
LANDLORDS COWER IN FEAR OF MAOTRAIN
"that train pic is too powerful lmao" - u/Cadende
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Cycling is great for your back, I have no idea where that's coming from either. I have had back aches go away just by riding a bike for an hour.
Then explain my still ongoing back aches that agravate every time I try to ride my bike again while I'm still waiting for the appointment with my traumatologist
Your bike geometry is probably very wrong for you, or potentially some back issues that should be worked with the traumatologist.
But way too big or small bike can definitely make your back hurt, along with potentially other body parts such as neck, hands or knees.
If you have a cash to burn and will to try (and potential health problems resolved), bike shops can help you with choosing right size and bike type for you.
Probably my seating position, not at the bike but everywhere else. Plus maybe my scoliosis. I went to an emergency traumatologist and told me it wasn't anything extremely wrong and it looked like only the muscles affected. He told me to get 10 sessions of kinesiotherapy and after that do an X ray. Which was weird cuz why wouldn't I get the X ray first and why an X ray and not an tomography or ecography that actually looks at the muscle. So I went to a kinesiologist that isn't in my medical insurance but which I trust and told me I didn't have anything extremely wrong but I should get a tomography (or something like that) which he told me to wait for the medical-insurance-covered traumatologist to ask so I can get the scan free, and in the meantime gave me three sessions of kinesiotherapy (90 minutes of massages each session). 99% of pain/annoyance went away, but whenever I try to ride my bike again my lumbar muscles starts to feel a bit funny so I get scared and stop.
Last time I measured my bike frame it was the correct size for me. It's a 26" wheel mtb and the seat has always been at the horizontal level as the handlebars.
I went to the bike shop to get a stem extender and now it looks goofy and I don't like how it feels, but I only rode it 20 blocks since I got it. Anyways, the dude told me "ah you should get a 29" wheel bike to solve your problem" which basically gives me the same seat-handlebar-relative-position but it doesn't look goofy.
But anyways, before all this I used to cycle 15 - 20 km each day with a ~5 kg backpack which was not a good idea at all.
I won't comment on the medical part anything since I know jackshit, but happy to hear you've had some good help on the back problems.
Yeah 26" mountain bikes are pretty much all just kid sizes for the past 10 or so years, mostly because of the racing trends lol.
So you are saying the "correct" size for my height is still incorrect cuz it's meant for mtb racing and not for everyday "long distance" commute?
That's a whole another can of worms, but there's commuters from cruisers to fixies so preference? But I meant that the racing trends have moved all adult sizes to 29ers basically
Maybe a recumbent bike is right for you.
AIght I just need to find one that's cheaper than a brand new car
Recumbent bikes should be buyable for about twice the price of a good road bike or hybrid. It's the velomobiles that cost close to what a sedan does.
Where I live it's either someone making one in their garage or paying for an imported one 5X to 10X the price you would get them for in the US or Europe. No local factory is making nor assembling recumbent bikes