The handlebars may be the problem, on the other hand my back was killing me until I got a backrest. I haven't ridden for more than six hours at a time since I got it, but now the back pain is gone and just my butt hurts.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.