Originally Posted by
drlogik
Back in the 1970's I rode with cycling shoes with toe clips and cleats. I'll never do it again. Once the strap is tighted tight enough to hold the shoe, it is not easy to remove your foot from the pedal in an emergency. More than once I fell over at a stop light because I couldn't get my foot out in time. For me, yes the nostalgia is there but not the will to do it again.
Been using clips and cleats just as long. In the '70s I also started riding fix gear. Fix gear became my first love. When clipless came out I could not see how it was safer doing crazy high speed descents where I had no iidea how straight I was keeping my feet. I went clipless on my geared bikes but unclippng at speed on the fix gear has been an occaissional nightmare to this day. I tried them on one fix gear that I rarely rode on hills. The few hills I went down were scary.
Falling over at a standstill? No big deal. I just relax, realize I made a fool of my self and greet the ground with all the skin and flesh I can. (Enough and nothing gets bruised. I get up, dust myself off if needed and ride on;.