Originally Posted by FarHorizon
Even experienced clipless riders sometimes fall over.
I've been in many high-speed crashes (most of them while MTBing but sometimes while road riding too) and everytime, my feet have managed to automagically disengage themselves. It's the slow speed falls when I'm barely moving that cause me to get stuck. The worst injury I've ever received from such a fall was to my pride. Also, I seem to get trapped when I'm consciously trying to wrestle my way out of them. If I don't bother to think about it, my muscle memory just does its job and I can enter and exit my clipless pedals in any situation without problems.