You should never be gripping the hell out of the handlebars, that will make the bike harder to control.

If you wanted to stabilize the bike, relax on the bike. Grip with your legs. Your hands are there for pressure to turn and activating controls, that's it. If you want to stabilize, or straighten up the bike give a bit of throttle. Have you taken a MSF course or equivilent?

If you're inexperienced and having trouble controlling your bike due to wobbles, might want to take it easy until you become familiar with it all.

Check out A Twist of the Writst II. There is a book and a video. I studied that and it really improved my riding.

And I agree with gsJack... try to find the cause of these wobbles. Be it mechanical, or rider.

If I had to guess I'd say the first instance was a case of hitting the gas too hard and unbalancing the suspension. You have to be super smooth about everything on a bike.
And I would guess the second was a case of wind buffeting.

But, you may have a part starting to wear. Ride your bike smoothly with relaxed muscles and let us know if you get the wobbles again.

Reviving my thread I have taken the msf course and seen some of twist of the wrist not all of it though. Havnt gotten the wobbles again so I'm guessing it wasn't anything mechanical just my inexperienced self but I'm getting better  actually let go of the bars the other day and it was incredibly stable. Slack I think you guessed it right

Quote from: Slack on May 21, 2015, 09:47:20 AM
If I had to guess I'd say the first instance was a case of hitting the gas too hard and unbalancing the suspension. You have to be super smooth about everything on a bike.
And I would guess the second was a case of wind buffeting.

But, you may have a part starting to wear. Ride your bike smoothly with relaxed muscles and let us know if you get the wobbles again.

Crossbar, not a sway bar. As I understand it, for motorcross and BMX (things that jump)....additional strength for bars. There is a bit of stress associated with landing - especially on a bad one. It's a very inopportune time for a bar to snap. Because of the body position, I would thing MX bars would be more susceptible to twisting torque.