Hey guys,

first of all: I am not native english speaker so please excuse any faults. Though I hope you'll understand me.

My current problem: I can descend on my road bike (most) hills without even think of braking - which gives me speeds of approx. 40 mp/h. But on my Cervelo P5 (often) loose confidence as soon as I get faster than 25 mp/h. So all the aero advantage gets lost when going downhill. What can I do to get confidence here as well?

How I descend:

• grip the top tube with my knees
• unweighting the seat by standing up a little bit on the pedals
• hands on basebar, ellbows near the upper torso
• moving weight to the back of the saddle

Those things gave me a lot of confidence - at least at the classic road bike but not on the TT machine.


I see 2 problems:

• The Cervelo P5 has a lot of contact surface to the wind and as soon as it hits me ( even if it's just a little bit) I feel and fear the slight wobbles. I assume it will get stronger (don't know if that's true, it's just my imagination) and will skid me.
• On my road bike I feel like "getting one with the bike" (oh yeah, sounds like Star Wars) when using the drops of the handlebar - I am missing this on my P5, the basebar just doesn't give me this kind of confidence

By the way, it's not "speed wobbles" which scares me!


Any hints for me?

P.S. This is not a April 1st joke!