Did you fall off the first time you tried clipless pedals?

I've been riding clipless for so long (since I was about 14, so about half my life) that I honestly couldn't tell you.

I did have to run clips and straps the other day though, to commute a new bike home. Came very close to going arse over tit at some traffic lights when I couldn't get my foot out of the clips.

i find clips and straps worse! i almost fell off and died twice because of them a couple of years ago, one because of toe/front wheel overlap during a trackstand (on a 12 speed bike), and one because of trying to dodge some stupid pedestrians at low speed. and i fell off and fucked my knee last weekend doing a one footed no-hand trackstand cos i lost balance and forgot that i was supposed to pull my foot backwards rather than sideways... twisted my knee and landed right on it... partly cos I use clipless at least 5 days a week so pull the foot out sideways instinctively.

oh man, it hurt so bad, i couldnt walk for ages. serious pain.

with normal riding though, i am fine with them.

yep fell off in a clipping in incident, pouring with rain on a steep hill going up so pushing down with alot of force just went ping then face plant. oh shit forgot a track stand incdent when i didnt unclip fast enough but that was just messing about in the drive...still counts i guess

I actually hide the fact that I'm (well... was) vegan, because I hate the attention.

"but what do you eat?!"

"but where do you get your protein?!"

"but... but... why?!"

fuck off!!! I've already answered these questions 1,906,767 times, and I never ask meat eaters or vegetarians those questions, so leave me a fuking lone!!!!
Dependent on situation I either something really facetious like, "I only eat twigs and some small stones" Or simply reply with, "What do you think I eat?".

Dependent on situation I either something really facetious like, "I only eat twigs and some small stones" Or simply reply with, "What do you think I eat?".

Babies? Poor little soy babies? And teeth, which you bite out.

I ate lots of chana saag, tarka dhal, and food that impoverished Italians would eat such as pasta e ceci, pasta e lenticchie, and pasta e fagioli. Now I eat eggs and cheese even though I don't particularly like them but just because I'm too lazy not to eat them. Why I am announcing this to a bunch of people I never met, I really don't know. This is obviously a sign of drunkeness and also of alcohol withdrawal - I ran out of beer over an hour ago :(

I don't eat animal produce last time I checked most humans got upset when you call them animals. I guess I could eat people?

You're lucky. I'm still at work.

I don't eat animal produce last time I checked most humans got upset when you call them animals. I guess I could eat people?

In the same way that Amy Winehouse might consider experimenting with drugs.

Fucking baby eaters.

Idiot!!!

i was about 16 then, but yeah, what a fooking eejit i was.

My mates always warned me of clipless, seeing as they had all had bad first experiences. But I've never had an accident due to riding clipless, and I try my hardest never to unclip, even if it means riding right up to the back to someone's rear bumper and pressing my tyre right up against it to keep myself propped up :P

Have fallen off, but first time on clipless, was on a brakeless pista and i was fine.

Had about 4 lights trackstanding incidents and one or two similar.

I thought for the first 3 weeks that falling off was just the way that you dismounted with clipless pedals.

Had a few close calls with cleats but I practiced away from onlooking vegans, grannies and kevs.

Ha . . i just toppled over at some lights on the way back from wests riding my look at me Lo Pro . . what a cunt

i had a slow-mo fall to one side at some traffic lights a few weeks after i went clipless

otherwise it has been fine

i was always advised not to eat the meat of carnivores, but can we eat vegans?

i knew a radical vegetarian (the Reverend Chris Korda) who used to do taste tests out side supermarkets. He'd give people lumps of cooked meat to try and then ask them "one was pork, the other human, can you tell the difference?"

Never actually tried riding clipless, but to add to the "only happens when it's embarassing"theory, I was there when my ex-g/f fell over on hers... like a lot of people she'd been riding for about a week with no problems (a least that she'd admitted to me) I as waiting for her outside our flat, she gracfully flew to the point I was standing at, slowed and stopped beautifully, stopped there looking at me for what seemed like an age as she slowly keeled over with a surprised look on her face... priceless.

I have fallen over in clips once though, hurried too much getting from pavement to cycle box in front of lights, slipped and keeled over in front of a packed bus... had to get off the road again I was laughing at myself so much... took about 5 minutes to stop laughing enough to get back on!

love riding clipless from the first moment i tried them, no problems really, only fall to date was by my own slackness when i lost so many screws from the soles that the cleats turned and there was no way to remove the shoe from the pedal the usual way.
( ... these screws aren't there just for decoration then.. Doh)

First post, so hello. Will post in names and faces thread once I've been somewhere near a camera...

Didn't fall off the first time, but gone over a few times; fitting in with Embarrassing Times Theory. First time, slowed down and was going to lean against a bollard at some lights, which unfortunately turned out not to be attached to the ground. Some black cab driver behind me found it very funny. Other time, Had to stop quickly and went to the left of some other cyclist, unclipped my left foot and unbalanced to the right, so the bike went over his wheel, and all the school kids on the (stopped) bus behind found that quite funny too..

I think I fell off a few time when I first started using them although I was about 12, was also using onza spd's that were slightly ropey the springs were elastomers. Can definately remember one time going up to some traffic lights not being able to get my feet out and couldn't trackstand so just had to go round in circles in front og the cars until the traffic lights changed. Probabaly only used them for a year though and then didn't use them again for 10 years and since not had any problems.

This forum seems to be increasingly profiling all it's members. Between comprehensive lists & polls on every possible cycling scenario. I wonder it that data could be put to any useful purpose?
On another note, I've fallen off my bike loads over the years but mostly due to gravity/balance/crashes and never because of my cleats.

It brings to mind the N.R.A. slogan of guns not killing people.

I've only ever fallen off while pissed.

i didn't fall off the first time i rode with clipless pedals. but i have fallen off. usually because i neglected to tighten the bolts holding them onto my shoes.

twist feet, shoes move, cleats stay firmly lodged, badtmy slow-falls sideways. fuck.

I have done exactly this, where the bolt has fallen out of the shoe. The dude at the lights that saw me came over and said "you been riding long?". tits.

Yes, they're mainly made from soya.

:)

Yes - But only after riding with them for a while. Unclipped left foot, toppled slowly to the right and managed about three sideways hops before admitting defeat and falling in the road laughing.