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When I do long stretches with some power (solo speeds >15 on gravel for example), I have a habit of raising my right arm and shoulder, tilting my head slightly to the right and my right arm sticks out. Its like I lock hard in that position on my upper body, get in the zone, and pedal away. I do this on my flat bar and my drop bar. On my flat bar I can see my hand up and further around the front of the grip than my left hand. On the drop bar, my right arm would be sticking out further and higher than my left arm. I have been doing this for a while, probably forever. I didn't really pay attention to it until recently when I got some serious neck pain after a gravel century and some shorter rides between another century a week later. Now that the neck pain is there and not going away very fast I can feel the pressure on the right side of my neck on any ride more than 10 miles as soon as I start putting some power down. The obvious answer is don't do that with my right arm but apparently it's not that easy. I always default to that locked up tense position when I start going up a hill. There has to be a way I can learn around that or figure out why I am doing that.. Am I twisting myself to bring my right side more forward for some reason? If saddle sores are any indicator, I seem to always get them on my right side and rarely the left. I had a fitting recently on my gravel drop bar and I didnt think to bring it up, maybe they were not looking for that or I wasn't putting down any real speed at the time. At the fitting he noted my arms and legs were the roughly same length and I had a slight difference in shoulder height. I am bow legged and a wedge was put in my left cleat to help with any potential knee pain. I'm a lefty if that matters.