Originally Posted by mleess
Do all your clipless pedal falling off now, so you don't scratch up your new bike.
Practice a lot with the pedals. I don't just mean in your driveway, I mean doing a lot of riding on lightly traveled streets, stopping, starting, clipping in and out on hills, etc. It's not the routine unclipping that will get you, but the unexpected, e.g., someone stops short in front of you, you try to take a foot going up a hill but can't unclip before your momentum runs out, etc. Those things can be tricky at first.
Haha, yeah. That's why I'm wanting them now, so I don't bang up my new bike
I'll be sure to get plenty of practice with them. This might help me stave off getting my new bike for another month or so if I have a goal that I'm setting that I need to accomplish before I get the new bike (the goal being to where I have become decent at clipless pedals... hehe)
I'll remember to put them on the correct way too. Thanks for the tip, guys.
Do you all think it would be a better idea to go to my LBS to get my first pair of shoes and pedals rather than blindly buy them off the Internet?