Profpointy
Legendary Member
I know someone who has problems balancing while taking one hand off the handlebars to indicate or whatever. One thing I notice is that, because she is very worried about it, she tenses up too much, gripping the bars with her remaining hand for grim death. When reminded to relax, and just practise lifting her hand up six inches then taking hold again, she is fine. Try not to be too anxious about it, just practise doing the movement in small stages and you will get there.
I'm sure there's something in the wobbling because gripping too hard theory. My cycling is instinctive having been doing it so long, so hard to work out what I'm actually doing, but having returned to motorcyles after a 25 plus year gap, it's taken a couple of years and nearly 20,000 more miles to realise I was gripping th bars too hard, and if I relax a bit it just works. Just like riding a bike you might say