Originally Posted by
Greyryder
I have the same aversion to being attached to my bike. That said, competent clipless pedal riders can clip out as fast as we can get our feet off of our shin killers. With practice and use unclipping becomes second nature, and you don't even have to think about it, anymore. Or, so I've been told by BMXers who run clipless.
Well, that's what they say about clipless, but I still don't know how willing I'd be to entertain the concept of literally being locked to my bike. I'm comfortable with the basic method of riding on flats, and I can certainly appreciate some of the claimed advantages of clipless, but I guess in the grand scheme of things, I'm not all that interested in the risk of breaking an arm or a leg while trying to pull my foot from a pedal. It just sounds really dangerous. There are too many variables; "What if I'm sailing towards traffic and my foot doesn't engage? What if I'm heading for a tree and my foot doesn't engage? Etc."