Cruisy comfort?

**Waylander** · 21st September 2005, 15:30

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.

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** · 21st September 2005, 15:40

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)

**sAsLEX** · 21st September 2005, 15:41

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** · 21st September 2005, 15:42

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** · 21st September 2005, 15:44

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** · 21st September 2005, 15:44

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

**Ixion** · 21st September 2005, 15:59

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** · 21st September 2005, 15:59

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

Originally Posted by Fish

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** · 21st September 2005, 16:11

Originally Posted by Waylander

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

doesnt necessarily imply sportbikes.

Originally Posted by Waylander

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.

Originally Posted by Waylander

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.