Cruisy comfort?

[Waylander]

Are Cruisers comfortable?
For riding any given distance and maybe even for a few things that have to do with riding but may not happen to be on the road. :devil2:

Sparked by a post by the queen of england in another thread i've decided to put up a poll. Lets see what everyone thinks.

Personally I would prefer a cruiser for longer trips. Legs are stretched out so that they don't cramp up, not leaning forward on my arms so they don't get tired and my back is generally straighter for longer on a cruiser. After a while I start to slouch but that usually doesn't happen for a good while on the bike.

So anyway, vote wich one you think and then give us an explaination of why you think that way.

[Smorg]

Who gives a shit if your gonna ride a crusier your gonna ride a crusier, if your gonna ride a sportsbike your gonna ride a sportsbike.....................
I myself would never purchase a crusier so i'll never know what i missed out on (if there was anything at all) :weird:

[sAsLEX]

dont find i lean as such on my arms on longer trips the wind blast supports the weight of your body along with the muscles in your back and abs holding your body up as well


as for cramping legs on sprot bikes just sit on the tank for a bit or as death does it stand up on the pegs during a wheelie to stretch them

[bugjuice]

haven't ridden a cruiser, but would hate to tour on my sprotsbike.. I prefer hanging off the seat than sat squarely on it..

[Pancakes]

Have pottered around, sat on a couple that friends dad's have and had a sit etc and most seem ok. Only the mad ape-hangers and extreme riding positions that seem to be popular with people who like this type of bike are too exagerated for my stumpy arms and legs to reach so I'd find them hard work and not for me.

edit. and I've liked tassels, all those bikes have real long tassels eh, waylander? I wonder if the GN would go faster if I put tassels on or a big R (I've heard RR is even better!)

[Biff]

I've ridden three in my time. Two gave me lower back ache after a while, one, a VN1800 (?), was lurrrrrvly and comfy.

[Ixion]

Can't vote, cos I've never ridden a crusier. (You misspelt it BTW).

I suspect it depends on getting the position of stuff exactly right for your height and arm and leg length. Complaints of lower back pain are probably because the leg to peg position is too long for the bar position, so that the rider is effectively having to fight aginst falling backwards .

Certainly couldn't be more uncomfortable than sprotsbikes.

For comfortable touring , what you need is (surprise surprise), a tourer. Yes indeedy, there are such things, neither sprotsbike nor crusier. Sensible riding position, not all crouched up like a sprotbike, and arms and legs in the proper places. And bars set up so that you sit on the wind at cruising speed, no load on arms or back at all.

[Waylander]

Bringing this here so we will stop kijacking that other thread.

could be. I've always been a delicate sort.



wasn't arguing against that.

ah fooey, I dont have the energy for the different-bike-type argument crap.
Sure you were. "non-wanky non-cruiser-riders" I belive you said. As for them being accepting... Most that I've known wont even so much as talk to you if you can't take a 90degree corner at 200kmh dragging everything but the oposite side of the bike. Whether you ride a sportbike or not. Beleive it or not but I find that cruiser riders are generally more excepting, even for guys on sportbikes,with the exception being several of the Harley riders.

I don't care what you ride, so long as you're not a jerk you're cool with me. Accept the fact that I'm slower than you and don't ridicule me for it and you're even cooler in my books. As I said above, I think cruisers are more comfortable for longer rides. That's not saying that sportbikes don't have thier purpose. Ride what you want and think is cool don't worry about what others think. I'm done biting Fish's hook now.

[jrandom]

Sure you were. "non-wanky non-cruiser-riders" I belive you said.

doesnt necessarily imply sportbikes.


As for them being accepting... Most that I've known wont even so much as talk to you if you can't take a 90degree corner at 200kmh dragging everything but the oposite side of the bike.

theyre so used to dragging their knuckles in everyday life that they find it uncomfortable when something else isnt dragging during a ride.


I'm done biting Fish's hook now.

funnily enough that one wasnt a hook. I just dont like cruisers. and I've certainly had more unpleasant experiences with people on cruisers than people on sportbikes. generally the squids dont mind if your not challenging their ego, which I dont imagine Im likely to do, and the ones that wont talk to you if you have chicken strips are usually so mindnumbingly neanderthalic that one can be positively glad of their disregard.

but this is a very silly topic and worthy of neither serious discussion nor trollage.

[Sniper]

A bike is a bike in my veiw point. I have nothing against either

[mstriumph]

this poll is void for vagueness ---- more comfortable for what? :(

[Waylander]

Read the first post Mstriumph, all will be made clear.

[Smorg]

this poll is void for vagueness ---- more comfortable for what? :(

more comfortable for having an emotional conversation with, duuuuuurrr!!!! :laugh:

[Sniper]

Im curious to know fish. What do you class your bike as? Cruiser or Sportier? It just for my curiousity.

[jrandom]

Im curious to know fish. What do you class your bike as? Cruiser or Sportier? It just for my curiousity.

I think of it as a Classic.

[Sniper]

Ok, thats good, thanks

[Storm]

I personally rckon cruisers are more comfy, but each to thier own
PS Ixion why is it "crusIer" ?

[Motu]

Don't mind a cruiser,I find them more comfy than a sportsbike,and easier to move around at low speed - but I'm with Ixion...if you want to do big distances you need a Tourer,there are such things y'know.....

[Ixion]

I personally rckon cruisers are more comfy, but each to thier own
PS Ixion why is it "crusIer" ?

Tcchh . Haven't you read the KB Dictionary.

Crusier
Sprotsbike
Gargre
Praking


Y'gotta talk the right talk y'know

[Pancakes]

Harold (and this to make up the 10 letters)

[Storm]

Heaven forbid we should mangle the Queens English then. :bleh:
Up with the Great New Zealand Arse :D

[jrandom]

Queens English up the Great New Zealand Arse

well, it seems comfortable enough in there.

[Lou Girardin]

well, it seems comfortable enough in there.

Just need to relax. Right?

[Waylander]

but this is a very silly topic and worthy of neither serious discussion nor trollage.
I don't see this topic as not being worthy of serious discusion. And if you had thought that you wouldn't have brought it up anyway.<_<
I'll give you a point though in the fact that Tourers are more comfortable for longer rides. But that does not mean that cruisers aren't comfortable. Every bike has it's purpose so don't go trashing all cruiser riders becouse of your experiance with them.

And yes I know in my previous posts it looks as if I'm trashing sport bike riders due to past experiance but I never said all of them were like that just the majority of ones I have met in the past. Doesn't say anything about the ones I may meet in the future.:dodge:

[mstriumph]

Read the first post Mstriumph, all will be made clear.

erm --- posted AFTER reading the thread thru ..... your post gives your opinion for one circumstance but.......

[Waylander]

Ah, ok. A point then Mstriumph. I will correct it.

[jrandom]

I don't see this topic as not being worthy of serious discusion.

I did a bit of poking through the archives already. the topic has been done to DEATH here. I cannot bring myself to attack it again. not invalid, just stale.

in other circumstances I'm sure I would find it more interesting to address the question. but quite honestly it gives me a headache and an annoyed twitchy feeling when I try to think about it further. I tried, there, but I really just dont care enough.

[Waylander]

If you say so Fish. But I spend alot of time on here (too much according to some) and I've never seen any discussions about whether a cruiser is comfortable or not. But if that's the story you want to go with then by all means be my guest.:msn-wink::first:

[Hitcher]

Just don't Google it...

[Hitcher]

Anyhoo. Cruisers are generally pretty comfortable (the qualifier is because there are exceptions to every rule, including this one). But I'd advocate fitting a screen if you're planning to ride reasonably long distances: keeps the wind off your chest and you don't have to hold on so tightly.

[chickenfunkstar]

Are Cruisers comfortable?
For riding any given distance and maybe even for a few things that have to do with riding but may not happen to be on the road. :devil2:

Sparked by a post by the queen of england in another thread i've decided to put up a poll. Lets see what everyone thinks.

Personally I would prefer a cruiser for longer trips. Legs are stretched out so that they don't cramp up, not leaning forward on my arms so they don't get tired and my back is generally straighter for longer on a cruiser. After a while I start to slouch but that usually doesn't happen for a good while on the bike.

So anyway, vote wich one you think and then give us an explaination of why you think that way.

I was under the impression that 'comfyness' was the point of a cruiser. Sort of like in a sit back and enjoy the scenery type of way. Is that not always the case?
I'd really like to own one at some stage.

[Virago]

I was under the impression that 'comfyness' was the point of a cruiser. Sort of like in a sit back and enjoy the scenery type of way. Is that not always the case?
I'd really like to own one at some stage.
Some people reckon that crusiers give you backache, by sitting you on your tailbone, with feet forward where they can carry no body weight to ease the pressure on your spine.

But others who have back problems swear by the crusier, and say that sprotbikes cause backpain.

I personally find the crusier riding position very comfortable, but as Waylander says you can end up slouched after a couple of hours riding.

The crusier riding position is about more than comfort. "Laid-back" is not just a riding position, it's a riding attitude.

For those who want to lie face-down across a sprotbike, with eyes fixed on the road immediately ahead, racing to the next destination, that's fine with me. I'll see you at the next stop. :ride:

[Storm]

Well said that man.

[Big Dave]

I depends on the cruiser.
I've ridden/tested 20 or more variants.
Some hurt my back - Bonneville America - yeeeouch.
A road king is the most comfortable bike i've ever ridden.
Guzzi California didn't work for me - too cramped, but I could spend hours painlessly on a Rocket III. VTX1800 was half way.

Depends on the size and shape of the rider and the cruiser.