There is simply nothing on this Earth like hitting the road for a long ride on a Harley. Two wheels, the wind in your face, the roar of the engine, the ogling from the people you pass in their boring Honda Civics. The freedom. The journey. The — oh my God, why do I feel like someone just stabbed me in the lower back with a Phillip’s head screwdriver?

There’s a reason every single Harley on the planet has Aspirin in the saddlebags. Riding hurts.

You’ve read every article about maintaining good posture on a bike. You’ve subscribed to all the blogs that pore over every detail about proper position in the saddle. Yet every time you pull into the driveway and climb off your bike, your entire body feels like Braveheart on the rack. So, what do you do? You hobble inside, limp to the medicine cabinet and gobble up ibuprofen like Cookie Monster.

But there’s an alternative.

Next time you come back from a long ride, head straight for your spa. There is simply nothing in the world that is more perfectly built to soothe the road pain right out of you. 

• Throbbing muscles massaged back to normal.
• Achy back relieved and loosened.
• Stiff hands and fingers relieved.
• That perpetual ghost vibration you still feel 40 minutes after you shut off the engine? Gone.  

You know all that tightness in your neck that comes from holding your helmeted head up straight for the entire ride? You can feel it melt away after just a few minutes in the hot tub. When you look at list of the ailments that spas can soothe and heal, and then look at a list of aches and pains that are common to bikers, you’d have to conclude that hot tubs were designed for and by bikers alone. That’s not true, of course, but who cares? The point is, every ache, pain, stiffness and tightness that you take home from the highway can be dissolved like Alka Seltzer in a spa.