Quote Originally Posted by Irulan View Post
The farther you are off the saddle, the more stable you will be. The knees slightly bent "I must not touch the toilet seat with my butt" hover is useful, but extending the legs more gives you a lot more options to start moving your body. You may not get some of this until you move into some clinics.
I will remember this, and I don't want to go TOO far until I get to the clinic - I don't want to over-compensate and fall over When I finally managed to get the weight on my pedals and not my hands I did feel much more stable - even if it did seem to take more leg strength than I realized to do it. I was able to relax my upper body a tad.

I looked up "proprioception" that Becky mentioned and my trainer has me do those kind of exercises - if they are what I think they are. One good example I can think of are bicep curls on one leg, and there are other things he has me do. I would think my legs should be strong enough for at least short periods standing on the pedals - I can leg press 40 pounds more than I weigh, but of course that is something else. My body isn't moving at the time...

I will mention this to my trainer tomorrow, he is a quite avid mountain biker and am quite sure he will come up with new ways to torture me

For some reason I seem to have an easier time trying things going downhill I haven't yet learned how to pedal standing up though...