The pains keep me off from riding longer/further

Originally Posted by mysrh

Hi everyone, I will try to describe as best as I can from what I have been suffering every bike rides.

I start riding more seriously with bike now. I only have done 200KM long ride so far. However, there are 2 areas which always stop me from enjoying the ride.

1. From the design of bike gloves I have seen, most of them if not all focus on the nerves going to the little finger direction. My problem is the other way round, I never have any problem with those nerve, instead I always have a pain/cramp on the palm in thumb area (the area below the thumb).

It happens after around 30 minutes of riding, changing the position of the hands didn't do any good. I have used 2 gloves so far, the newest one is with extra padding on the thumb area, even that doesn't help anything.

The pain is gone or reduced after I do harder ride but it's still there, that is when my body is already warmed-up or I may say when I have my 'second-wind'.


2. Now come to my second problem after the second-wind. This problem is even more annoying than the first one. It is my lower back, the bones (or spines) above the tail bones, parallel to the hip bones. After only 10km I usually start feeling the pain. The pain is only on the right side of the body.

The pain has existed even if I don't ride. but the bike ride makes the pain more apparent. If I don't stop the ride (ignoring the pain), I will soon feel my butt getting numb which then affecting my right leg and right foot becoming numb. I don't know if shoes has anything to do with the foot's numb.

The worst occured just yesterday, the pain affected my 'nut' (again right one) becoming sore. Well to be honest, I also feel this pain (from nut sore to numbness on the right butt area) whenever I ejaculate.

I've talked about this to my doctor, which happens to be a cyclist himself. But according to him, my condition is more like a nerve-pinched. At this time he recommends me to do more exercise particularly swimming to strengthen my back muscle.

Well I do also sit in front of computer for a long time, which I also think may cause the lower back pain.
What I am not sure now is what actually happens to my lower back, and if there any other things you can suggest I can do. Or is it related to nutrition deficiency during the ride or in life general?

Thank you for your time reading this, really appreciate it.

Originally Posted by mysrh

I ride Giant OCR, so it should be quite upright for a road bike, although sometimes I like to bend myself as much as possible when I am riding fast.

But really the soreness due to bending my body for a period of time is different to the annoying problem I have. I can feel the sore muscle due to bending differently than thelower back pain.

Originally Posted by mysrh

Hi everyone, I will try to describe as best as I can from what I have been suffering every bike rides.

I start riding more seriously with bike now. I only have done 200KM long ride so far. However, there are 2 areas which always stop me from enjoying the ride.

1. From the design of bike gloves I have seen, most of them if not all focus on the nerves going to the little finger direction. My problem is the other way round, I never have any problem with those nerve, instead I always have a pain/cramp on the palm in thumb area (the area below the thumb).

It happens after around 30 minutes of riding, changing the position of the hands didn't do any good. I have used 2 gloves so far, the newest one is with extra padding on the thumb area, even that doesn't help anything.

The pain is gone or reduced after I do harder ride but it's still there, that is when my body is already warmed-up or I may say when I have my 'second-wind'.


2. Now come to my second problem after the second-wind. This problem is even more annoying than the first one. It is my lower back, the bones (or spines) above the tail bones, parallel to the hip bones. After only 10km I usually start feeling the pain. The pain is only on the right side of the body.

The pain has existed even if I don't ride. but the bike ride makes the pain more apparent. If I don't stop the ride (ignoring the pain), I will soon feel my butt getting numb which then affecting my right leg and right foot becoming numb. I don't know if shoes has anything to do with the foot's numb.

The worst occured just yesterday, the pain affected my 'nut' (again right one) becoming sore. Well to be honest, I also feel this pain (from nut sore to numbness on the right butt area) whenever I ejaculate.

I've talked about this to my doctor, which happens to be a cyclist himself. But according to him, my condition is more like a nerve-pinched. At this time he recommends me to do more exercise particularly swimming to strengthen my back muscle.

Well I do also sit in front of computer for a long time, which I also think may cause the lower back pain.
What I am not sure now is what actually happens to my lower back, and if there any other things you can suggest I can do. Or is it related to nutrition deficiency during the ride or in life general?

Thank you for your time reading this, really appreciate it.