Originally Posted by
urbanknight
All of you people who don't think tension is an issue are forgetting that people are different. Women, children, and other people (weak knees, previous injuries, movement issues, etc.) sometimes find it difficult to clip out.
It can be an issue but are most pedals that different in their lowest tension setting?
Is the problem generally the tension or is it the unfamiliarity with the particular, unusual technique required to unclip?
Originally Posted by
urbanknight
I remember my mom's first clipless moment was a good 5-10 seconds of shouting "I CAN'T GET MY FOOT OUT!" before she ran out of room and succumbed to her fate.
This was the
first moment. It seems that it might be more due to the unfamiliarity to the whole clipless thing than the tension (unless she started using different pedals after this first time). That is, she might have said the same thing with pedals with the "lowest" tension because the required movement was
peculiar not "hard".