Bob, I'm thinking that her reoccurrence of back pain could have been caused by riding the BA.(okay...settle down people and I'll explain)
Having to place one's feet forward on these bikes puts too much weight on one's tailbone, thus causing a compression of the vertebrae. Due to the restriction from using one's legs as support of their body's weight to act as somewhat of a shock absorber to the spine, back pain, especially if one already has a history of this pain, is almost assured.
My suggestion: Do what Phil recently did and buy a standard Bonnie(with the standard riding position, of course) for your wife. They're just enough different from our BAs and Speedies that you shouldn't feel that they are too similar.
And, as an added bonus, it's a....TRIUMPH!!!
Cheers,
Dwight
(no...I'm not a doctor...I just play one on the Internet)
