I put the new Clik'R shoes, cleats, pedals on yesterday and rode around for 1/2 hour. Still have the cast on, so I took it VERY easy. Here's my report:

1. The unclipping is stupid-easy, as advertised. I'm 99% certain that in any kind of crash or fall, my feet would come out of the pedals. I'd be wildly surprised if they didn't. I can unclip from any position of the crank arm and can even unclip both feet simultaneously.

2. The clipping in is a little harder than I thought. Not that there's any real effort involved, but I found myself tapping and dabbing trying to get the cleat and binding to mate. Probably will get the hang of that soon.

3. I set the pedal bindings to their lightest setting. I immediately noticed that there was a LOUD "CLICK" sound happening whenever I bounced over a rough spot in the road. At first I thought WTF happened to my bike (haven't ridden it since the fall)? Then I realized it was the pedals. Maybe tightening the adjustment will make it go away.

4. I realized that even though clipping out is now basically not a problem, that it is not THE problem. What I mean is that I'm not certain that if I got into a panic stop situation and got clipped out easily that I would still prevent falling! It's a balance thing and a bike-handling thing. I realized that I might even fall if I were on flats because of something like starting to fall to one side and putting the opposite foot down...that kind of thing--if that makes sense.

Bottom line--I'm glad I have these and they will be useful for sure. But all the other things apply and are MORE important. I think if my balance and bike skills improved the Speedplays wouldn't present a problem.

STP