So I am bad at this road bike thing. I keep falling over when I'm about to take off and I haven't even switched to my clipless peddles yet! Today I toppled over as I was hoisting my butt up to the seat and had one foot on the peddle; I gave myself some good road rash. What's worse I think is that I have not yet become comfortable with where to put my hands to manipulate stearing, breaks and thumb shifters. So far I have kept my hands out of the drops and basically keep them around the stem since a pair of break levers are there and quickly try to grab the hoods to shift. I have shifted, but I still need a lot of practice at that (both balance-wise and learning how to shift without hurting my bike). I am extremely wobbly when I ride do to my hands being more centered and weight balanced differently. I never thought it would be that different than my comfort, whew. I swear I didn't have these problems when I did the 3 trials at the LBS.