Message #15586

[Svend]

Think the two I's.

-ICE
-Ibuprofen.

I recommend icing knees for 15 minutes after each ride. Ibuprofen after harder rides.

How about Scotch? Single malt.  I will gladly self-prescribe! It relaxes my facial muscles nicely, so should do wonders for my sore knees 

I too have sore knee caps at the beginning  of each riding season. Where the muscles attach to the knee cap on the top and bottom of my knee cap is where I feel it. I focus on lower resistance, higherturn over.

Same place that mine hurt.  Hope it doesn't become chronic.  But will definitely take it easy on the high gears / low cadence thing.

Weird thing, this.....I can ski for 5, 6, 7 days straight, 4 to 6 hours a day, and not feel a twitch of pain in my knees.  But get on my bike a couple times, and Whammo.  But, then, if I actually bent my knees when I skied, I might actually feel something there