Fifty Plus (50+) - There should be a rule...

Seems like there should be some consolation for those who get started with clipless and then come back to report falling.

Shouldn't one who falls be eligible for at least a piece of pie, regardless of distance ridden that day?

Sure...pie. Maybe also a bandaid and, if single, a kiss from our very own, bikini clad Ms. Scarlett Abrasion. Married guys get to go home and have their wives yell at them, "I told you so, fooling around with that damned bike at your age".

No. Don't even try it, DG. You have to go some distance like the rest of us. You can't just flop over from a dead stop and expect pie... and sympathy. Good grief, man.

They have already had the opportunity to confess their blunders thereby removing most of the stain on their reputation.

At the moment of falling, the last thing one thinks is pie...so to have that possibility of actually receiving pie would make the whole shame of falling disapear...scar-let or not.............peace

I'll support this proposition so long as the rule states I'm eligible for double pie in the event of a toppled tandem

You should have to earn pie by not having a pedal-related falling-over.

There are only two kinds of clipless riders: those who have fallen over because they didn't get undone in time, and those who haven't yet but will. You'll get no sympathy from me; actually it qualifies you for entry in the club! Send your dues to me. (I think you know what the dues are.)

I'll pass on the pie, thank you, and keep my toeclips and color-coordinated straps, along with my nonindexed shifters, handlebar-mounted water bottles, nonaero brake cable routing, frame-fit pumps, half-step or 1.5-step ("Alpine") gearing, and tensioned leather saddles. :)

You should have to earn pie by not having a pedal-related falling-over.

Hear! Hear!

It should be the other way around - if you fall over because you don't clip out, and you should buy a round of pie for everybody.

Make mine Key Lime. please........

While I'm pleased to report that on my first full day of riding clipless yesterday that I fell, I failed to do it by the prescribed method of tipping over at a stop.

No, I did it the aid of a coal-black rottwieler that executed a perfect intercept course. Fortunately, the blood didn't stain my brand new clipless shoes. (Not sure how I bled on both shoes from one knee.)

Do I get two slices for that? (Apple and Peanut Butter please.)

Sorry, tsl, but in your case, the rottweiler gets the pie-- unless you want to take it back from him. You sound pretty chipper, so hopefully you bled more than you got damaged. Had you been sitting in a recliner, presumably eating pie, this would never have happened. And if that smart ass dog tries it again, go ahead and squirt some blood on him. Serves him right!

I'll pass on the pie, thank you,

To even think about passing on pie is sacrilidge. No matter what the reason.