Stabilizes it without the potential for unintentional steering inputs. Consider if your whole body is tense and you hit a bump: the force of the bump is transmitted through your body to the bars, creating a steering input and thus causing additional motion of the bike. This frightens you, causing you to tense further, magnifying whatever uncontrolled movements the bike is now making....... etc, etc, etc.taxman1965 wrote:I do have a question---I've heard of guys suggesting that I keep my legs tight to the bike and keep my upper torso loose and relaxed, as you suggested. What does hugging my legs to the bike do for me? Stabilize it?
Now with a cruiser I don't know how much potential you have to keep your legs tight to the bike. Been years since I rode one, all my bikes are standards. It works well for standards and sport bikes.