Hi Guys,

I just wanted to get your thoughts. I'm reasonably new to road cycling and I went out and got this all carbon bike to make me a better cyclist, turns out its just the icing on the cake. Nothing that cant be surpassed by a bit of base training.

I'm having trouble shifting gears when I go up hill and keep trying to change gears while I'm stationary. The chain comes off and I fall over, my jerk mate speed away from me and I know I would probably come last on any kind of race I did because of this.

I know I didn't build up enough of my base fitness on a stationary bike to be able to handle the big hills without worrying about shifting gears and I'm thinking I should probably just give up because its so embarrassing. Does anyone else have this problem? I hear it happens to the pros quite a bit.