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@Richard_Castle
There's nothing shameful about falling off using clips - sometimes you just do.
Once in the centre of Pau whilst touring - touring with clip pedals adds an extra dimension of potential disaster - and i went down, fully laden with all the gear. The lace of one shoe had become tangled in the SPD and, I was standing over the bike looking in the window of fcking *Benetton *when the bike overbalanced, the moment it started to go i knew it was going to be nasty. There was that magic moment when i just had to accept it was going to happen - the microsecond of struggle had shown me that. Town centre being very busy and i got quite a lot of sympathy, until they found out i was English.