Conquering downhill fears

[teawoman]

I hear ya on this one. I've been riding my new road bike for about a month and a half, and I am sure I go faster on the uphills than the downhills!

I had problems with braking from the hoods at first--LBS tightened up the brakes and now it's much better. I'm starting to be brave and not brake on some shorter hills, but I'm still skeered on many of the steep ones. My bike club chuckles at me a bit for this because I crawwwwwl down the steep hills. They all know to go around me now.