Cycling long distances every day can really hurt your neck & shoulders.

As you hunch over, your neck has to support your head as it's cantilevered. Turning your head in this position further tweaks your neck & trapezius.

So, the idea is simple: Support your head some other way:

1) A headband that fits under your helmet.

2) A strap connecting the headband to your tail.

How to connect it to your tail though?

A) Discreet: Put the strap under your shirt, & hook it into your belt loop. (Suspender style).

B) Dragon: Put it over your shirt, with attached spikes for, well, because, OK?

Or, just connect the strap to your bike, so nobody steals your bike.</s>
-- sophocles, Apr 09 2014

Is this a tumpline?
-- bungston, Apr 11 2014


I would think that either you should use a Dutch style utility bike and sit upright, or, if you must use a racing bike, then do what the pros do and look at your front wheel.
-- pocmloc, Apr 12 2014


I like 21's attempt to solve the problem too. They are both worthy additions, I think.
-- blissmiss, Apr 12 2014


Why not attach the helmet (which can be redesigned to better support the head) via short tethers to a rigid-ish frame worn on the shoulders, like a HANS device combined with one of those posture correction harnesses.
-- Alterother, Apr 12 2014


Why this idea has nothing whatsoever to do with geriatric mastadons on wheels, which makes this annotation completely irrelephant.
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Apr 12 2014


I've cycled very long distances and merely learned to relax my shoulders on climbs and vice versa. Almost got a bone for using a trumpline...
-- 4and20, Apr 01 2024


Recumbent bicycles mostly avoid this problem. Though some of the most laid back models need a headrest, to solved the opposite problem.
-- a1, Apr 01 2024


I have always intened to have sex on a bicycle, but it now occurs to me that a recumbent with tinted windows is the fucking and pumping solution.
-- 4and20, Apr 02 2024



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