Originally Posted by steve_cay

So here I was thinking "nonsense, that everybody will fall at least once with clipless." So easy to anticipate clipping out before stopping. So easy to just twist out, even after tightening them up a bit.

Well yesterday I hit some beach sand next to the trail, rear wheel starts digging in, bike tilts, I unclip that foot getting ready to brace ... give a power stroke to try and get out, bike flips the other way ... and down I go stuck to bike on top of me.

Daughter and wife laughing their heads off ... especially since I gave grief to my wife the day before for locking her rear wheel on a steep loose hill, and eating dirt (as well as a couple of leafs) on her way down!

I guese it is when you are caught by surprise, and only have half a second to react while the brain is too busy calculating other parameters ... that the command to unclip never goes through!