Quote Originally Posted by PamNY View Post
One word: practice. Off, on, start, stop, back off, back on, start again, etc. I did this in a park because traffic isn't the place to learn a new skill.

Took me a while to feel really confident, and until that time I did whatever I needed to do to feel safe and comfortable (in my case, this included having the saddle lower than it was supposed to be).
For some reason I thought that as I raised my seat post that this would take care of itself....nope Starting the way I do is easy, but it does take a few strokes to get any real power in my strokes and sometimes a little wobbly - though not often.