Had to happen, but curiously not how I expected it. My new clipless pedals are now 3 weeks old, and I fell off today. Well aware of the fact I needed to get out of them, I was at lights, nudging along waiting for green, then I just fell off. I thought getting out of them at the last 1/2 second would be a cinch, but it wasn't, and not helped by the fact I had just cranked up the release up couple of notches. Oh well, no harm done, knarly climbers hands saved the day, reached out and braced for a harmless, though exceedingly embarrassing impact. Didn't even scuff a pedal.
Note to self: Unclip in good time, especially in a built up area!
Had to happen, but curiously not how I expected it. My new clipless pedals are now 3 weeks old, and I fell off today. Well aware of the fact I needed to get out of them, I was at lights, nudging along waiting for green, then I just fell off. I thought getting out of them at the last 1/2 second would be a cinch, but it wasn't, and not helped by the fact I had just cranked up the release up couple of notches. Oh well, no harm done, knarly climbers hands saved the day, reached out and braced for a harmless, though exceedingly embarrassing impact. Didn't even scuff a pedal.
Note to self: Unclip in good time, especially in a built up area!
You should see the SPDs on my MTB. It's been stacked so many times the sides are burnished [1] aluminium.
[1] "deeply gouged" would be a slightly more accurate description
Had to happen, but curiously not how I expected it. My new clipless pedals are now 3 weeks old, and I fell off today. Well aware of the fact I needed to get out of them, I was at lights, nudging along waiting for green, then I just fell off. I thought getting out of them at the last 1/2 second would be a cinch, but it wasn't, and not helped by the fact I had just cranked up the release up couple of notches. Oh well, no harm done, knarly climbers hands saved the day, reached out and braced for a harmless, though exceedingly embarrassing impact. Didn't even scuff a pedal.
Note to self: Unclip in good time, especially in a built up area!
You should see the SPDs on my MTB. It's been stacked so many times the sides are burnished [1] aluminium.
[1] "deeply gouged" would be a slightly more accurate description
I'm not the only person who manages to fall off every other time they go offroad then 😉?
Oh well, no harm done, knarly climbers hands saved the day, reached out
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I had a very similar experience when I was out with the club a couple of weeks ago. If you think it's embarrassing doing it front of a load of motorists, imagine how embarrassing it is doing it in front of your fellow cyclists...
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Had to happen, but curiously not how I expected it. My new clipless pedals are now 3 weeks old, and I fell off today. Well aware of the fact I needed to get out of them, I was at lights, nudging along waiting for green, then I just fell off. I thought getting out of them at the last 1/2 second would be a cinch, but it wasn't, and not helped by the fact I had just cranked up the release up couple of notches. Oh well, no harm done, knarly climbers hands saved the day, reached out and braced for a harmless, though exceedingly embarrassing impact. Didn't even scuff a pedal.
Note to self: Unclip in good time, especially in a built up area!
It happened to me once, and several near-misses since. Funny, on my old bike, in 2 years I only fell off once (a helmet caused it, would you believe?! but that's for another thread ;-). Then my brother converted me to drop bars, lycra and SPD's. Now I can't stop falling off.
It happened to me once, and several near-misses since. Funny, on my old bike, in 2 years I only fell off once (a helmet caused it, would you believe?! but that's for another thread ;-). Then my brother converted me to drop bars, lycra and SPD's. Now I can't stop falling off.
First happened to me in France on holiday. Pulled up at the junction, twisted my foot and nothing happened. My parents description was that I frantically waved my foot around, then seemed to give up and just put my hands out. Amazingly, as the bike hit the floor, both feet unclipped.
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First happened to me in France on holiday. Pulled up at the junction, twisted my foot and nothing happened. My parents description was that I frantically waved my foot around, then seemed to give up and just put my hands out. Amazingly, as the bike hit the floor, both feet unclipped.
My new clipless pedals are now 3 weeks old, and I fell off today.
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OK, great, that's over with. It only happens the once, after all ;-)
I've no experience of using clipless pedals but it appears falling off your bike because of them is commonplace until you get used to them. I find it a bit odd that people don't consider this dangerous. Is there no case of anyone stopping in a stationary line of traffic, toppling over and getting squashed by a lorry speeding by in the adjoining lane?
First happened to me in France on holiday. Pulled up at the junction, twisted my foot and nothing happened. My parents description was that I frantically waved my foot around, then seemed to give up and just put my hands out. Amazingly, as the bike hit the floor, both feet unclipped.
First happened to me when some ******** did the pedal tension up to max when I left the bike locked up to get some shopping. Got in with difficulty, couldn't get out!. Had to take my shoes off to get of the bike and find out what had happened. :-(
Note to self: Unclip in good time, especially in a built up area!
What you need is what I had when I first moved to clipless... a husband and a son cycling behind me yelling "UNCLIP!" very loudly every time I approached a junction... red light...
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I've no experience of using clipless pedals but it appears falling off your bike because of them is commonplace until you get used to them. I find it a bit odd that people don't consider this dangerous. Is there no case of anyone stopping in a stationary line of traffic, toppling over and getting squashed by a lorry speeding by in the adjoining lane?
A helmet Will Save Your Life - they prevent 85% of deaths from speeding lorries.
Originally posted by Visionset Had to happen, but curiously not how I expected it. My new clipless pedals are now 3 weeks old, and I fell off today. Well aware of the fact I needed to get out of them, I was at lights, nudging along waiting for green, then I just fell off. I thought getting out of them at the last 1/2 second would be a cinch, but it wasn't, and not helped by the fact I had just cranked up the release up couple of notches. Oh well, no harm done, knarly climbers hands saved the day, reached out and braced for a harmless, though exceedingly embarrassing impact. Didn't even scuff a pedal.
Note to self: Unclip in good time, especially in a built up area!
-- Mike W
Sorry to hear that, but glad that the most you got out of it was a bit of gravel rash on your hands. I think that falling off the bike when locked into pedals is part of the "official" induction into their use. If you look with a large magnifying glass at the small print on the warranty that came with your pedals it probably said (in Arial 0.01pt) that "in attaching these pedals to the bike, the user hereby agrees to undertake at least one embarrassing and inexplicable 0mph tarmac encounter" 😉
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I had a very similar experience when I was out with the club a couple of weeks ago. If you think it's embarrassing doing it front of a load of motorists, imagine how embarrassing it is doing it in front of your fellow cyclists...
Doing it in front of them is nothing compared to doing it beside them and bringing them down like a set of dominoes.
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My new clipless pedals are now 3 weeks old, and I fell off today.
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OK, great, that's over with. It only happens the once, after all ;-)
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bit odd that people don't consider this dangerous. Is there no case of anyone stopping in a stationary line of traffic, toppling over and getting squashed by a lorry speeding by in the adjoining lane?
Nearly happened to me once. I was wearing shoes with road cleats and stopped at some roadworks lights. Put my right foot down and skidded all over the tarmac just rcovered in time to avoid oncoming traffic. Have been wearing SPDs ever since.
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I'm not the only person who manages to fall off every other time they go offroad then 😉?
I'm usually used as the guinea pig for unknown forest tracks, steep drops etc. as my friends know that if there is anywhere to fall off, I'll find it. That way they can avoid the tricky bit, usually whilst pedalling past me giggling their heads off, b*stards! :-)
First happened to me in France on holiday. Pulled up at the junction, twisted my foot and nothing happened. My parents description was that I frantically waved my foot around, then seemed to give up and just put my hands out. Amazingly, as the bike hit the floor, both feet unclipped.
Yeah, so did mine... which was nice.
Pah! You've not done it properly until you've slipped off a narrow piece of singletrack contouring round a *very* steep hill [1] travelling at speed and landed upside down in a stream, still clipped in.
Thank ged I was wearing a woolly hat, it could've been nasty otherwise. The sounds of laughter from above was what really hurt though. ;-)
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Pah! You've not done it properly until you've slipped off a narrow piece of singletrack contouring round a *very* steep hill [1] travelling at speed and landed upside down in a stream, still clipped in.
Thank ged I was wearing a woolly hat, it could've been nasty otherwise. The sounds of laughter from above was what really hurt though. ;-)
Been there done that [2]. By the time I'd hauled myself and my bike sodden out of the ditch they were all small dots on the horizon.
