Originally Posted by
jolly_ross
unclick one foot as you approach somewhere where you *might* have to stop. Clicking back in on the fly is easy (particularly if you still have tight control of the cranks with the other foot still clipped in)
+1
As I approach a situation where I can see I need to stop, I'll pull my right foot out (because that is generally, all I need to do). However, I am not so good at clipping in, despite the several years with the same shoes and pedals, sometimes I get it, more often than not, my foot is on the pedal but not in proper position to clip so I need a couple of pedal strokes to set my foot properly to clip in. They are standard SPD pedals and shoes so it isn't anything really to do with anything unique I have.
I am considering switching to either Candy3 or SPD downhill (eg Shimano PD-M545) pedals because of the larger platform than my XT pedals.