Originally Posted by MikeR
At some point (when you least expect it) you will forget to unclip until it is too late and you will fall over like a klutz. It only hearts you dignity.
Except in my case, but I think I'm literally like one in 100,000 or more... I actually found it not too scary and fairly easy to use my new shoes/pedals, but I did have an incident in which I unclipped fine, but fell over to the other side. Wound up with a NASTY straddle injury and 3 weeks later had to have surgery to have the hematoma drained. Worse than childbirth... But like I said, I'm definitely the exception. I took my neighbor out on her first clipless ride last weekend and she fell over literally 5 or 6 times with nothing more than a bruised hip and a bruised ego. You'll be comfortable before you know it! Good luck.