Motion sickness?

[Woodman]

Anyone else suffer from this when riding twisty roads?


I went for a ride to Titirangi bay in the Marlborough Sounds yesterday and had to stop and lay in the sun for half an hour to stop myself getting sick. It starts with the queasy feeling and then the burps and then the yawning and then I get quite nauseas and concentration levels fly out the door which ain't good on these skinny windy roads.
Admittedly the Sounds roads are bloody twisty and go on for a long time and its only them and the Motueka side of the Takaka hill that this happens to me, but its a real PITA when these roads are at my doorstep.

[nzspokes]

Its something Ive always suffered from, I gave up racing cars due to it.

I get it on the Trail bike off road and doing brake drills during rider training.

Would love a way to be rid of it.

[Nzpure]

Ginger pills or any sea sickness remedies will cure it. Sea sickness is just motion sickness. All the fixes will work for it.

[Madness]

Try smoking cannabis. It's meant to be great for controlling nausea.

[nodrog:Me]

concrete pills are your only solution.

[Box'a'bits]

Ginger pills or any sea sickness remedies will cure it. Sea sickness is just motion sickness. All the fixes will work for it.

I'd be cautious about that. Back when I was still road riding, I dosed up on anti sea sick tabs prior to Kaikoura, pre an expected rough ferry crossing. It affected my balance & therefore my riding before I hit the boat. I was riding fast with others who hadn't 'prepared'. I haven't repeated that since...

Possibly its an age related thing. I never had issues with motion sickness while driving until quite recently. Last time I flew over the Rimutakas in the B4(admittedly at night) I had to back off a lot because I'd made myself feel ill

[CelticSam]

ginger pills are the best at preventing

[mossy1200]

Sounds like an allergy to corners.Hmm not good.

Try looking further round the corner it may be your focus is on things to close to you and they are bluring.Normally the problem is the signal from your ears is differnt from the signal from yours eyes.You didnt have a cold or blocked ears?

Useless fact
When you are drunk alcohol makes the fluid in your ears tubes froth up.The tubes give the brain a signal as fluid moves and bends small hairs connected to nerves.This tells the body what position you are in.When you close your eyes to try and sleep the eyes no longer give brain signals of position and the froth in ear tubes gives signals saying your spinning.Wives tale of put foot on the floor works because your brain gets confirmation your not spinning from the grounded foot.

[Padmei]

For a moment I thought I had posted that when I read it. I got the same thing when I went out to Titirangi bay a few weeks ago. I ended up having to stop at the top of the Mahakapawa before Havelock to steady my head. After Havelock I began to feel normal again.
I only get it really along the Queen Charlotte drive. I reckon it has to do with the consistent cornering at higher speeds. Riding along the Kenepuru Rd in the sounds you can't really safely get a lot of speed up and/or you're concentrating more on the traction & corners so I don't think the effect is as bad - back on the QC tho it's a different story. This side of Takaka hill on the way back kinda gets me too.

My lil girl gets it real bad & there doesn't seem to be anything that cures it apart from driving really slowly. A horrible ailment really - breaks my heart everytime I look in the rear vision mirror to see her suffering on the long drives.

[JATZ]

Tis a good ride out there aye Woodster and I can put my hand on my heart and say I was sick of corners by the time we got back to Havelock when we went out there
I've only suffered motion/sea sickness from having my head down/arse up filleting fish or sorting scollops. Did you have ear plugs in ? try taking one out.
Ask Nordie about motion sickness, he may have a cure

[Underground]

We used to eat pickled onions for it when we were kids.... but with the wisdom presented so far I'd go with drinking a few beers and keeping one foot on the ground.

[GingerMidget]

Glad I'm not the only one. Nothing really gets the smell of puke out of a helmet, aside from getting rid of it. Lake ferry road is a good one for this.

Ginger is good for settling stomachs, as is peppermint tea after food

[Transalper]

I get the sick feeling quite easy as a passenger in a car if i don't pay attention to where we are going.
Only time it ever happened to me on a bike was the CBR1000F when I was hammering it over the hill to Akaroa.
It seemed to be too much hard throttle to hard brake eventually did it.
Now I ride smoother and not in a way I need to use the brakes so much, it hasn't been a problem since.

[FJRider]

It has a lot to do with your own "body gyroscope" ... sending mixed messages to the brain. It helps to keep an awareness of the horizion and body position (level/angle) where you are. Look up/around more often, and dont concentrate too closely, on the close surroundings ... for too long.

Some call it "situational awareness" ...

[KiWiP]

It has a lot to do with your own "body gyroscope" ... sending mixed messages to the brain. It helps to keep an awareness of the horizion and body position (level/angle) where you are. Look up/around more often, and dont concentrate too closely, on the close surroundings ... for too long.

Some call it "situational awareness" ...

+1

How do you ride? Eyes ahead of the front wheel or as you should be scanning. With eyes lifted up to your eventual horizon the brain should be able to connect the visual information and that from your Eustachian tubes (ear balancing bits) and stop the queasy bits.

I've done a fair bit of work with sea sickness on boats and scuba diving and the predominant factor appears to be eye occupancy (what you're looking at and for how long). On a bike I have noticed a certain amount of disorientation while riding through bush and had to changing my viewing/observing habits to counteract.