Quote Originally Posted by liza View Post
This is usual, I think. It took me a long time to get comfortable shifting through my front chainrings for this reason too. You just have to get used to it (I'm comfortable with it now). I have to give mine a big hard shove to upshift, and a much shorter click to downshift.

Pretty new bike! Congratulations !
I never could quite get the throw for the front derailleur. I got a bar end shifter put on instead. I like the friction shifter, I can 'cheat" and fine tune it easily.