Originally Posted by Wildewinds

Don't give up.

Whenever someone brings up being afraid of clipless pedals, I tell them the story about when I was on a narrow trail on my mountain bike. It was so narrow that my right pedal hit the cliff on the right side and kicked my back tire off the trail to the left. It was about 200 feet straight down. I was able to un-clip my right foot and catch myself on the trail before falling to my death.

The moral of the story?