Clipless: Yes
Toe Clips: Yes
platforms: Yes

My funniest was trying to show off for a bunch of new riders. I was on my mountain bike popping wheelies and just went right over on my back, still clipped in. Here I am joe cool rider who cant even stay upright on his bike...but other than that, I haven't fallen in clipless in years and years. But I am sure I will sometime this year, as my new ride I have some toe overlap with the front wheel, so at some point I expect to catch it while trackstanding, and go over...(don't ask I do things in reverse)

Didn't fall once my first year with clipless. Fell three times my second year, go figure. Once was when teaching my grandson how to ride a bike. Of course the other two times where on bike trails right in front of a few young ladies.

I regret to have to post that I finally had my first fall w/clipless pedals (after almost 2 years and probably 7000+ miles.

HOWEVER, it was in the cause of a good deed.....

On an organized metric century in Salem OR on Sunday, (4-27), while riding in town in a bike lane, I saw a piece of metal about 2 feet long, like the bottom of a fence post, laying at about a 45 degree angle out from the curb.

Since this was a pretty big ride, I was surprised nobody had cleared it out yet. Since there was nobody else around, I decided to stop and clear the metal out of the bike lane.

So....while stopping, I got the left foot unclipped, but did not get the right foot unclipped (new shoes and new pedals), and tipped over from the bike lane into a nice soft patch of newly mown grass.

Absolutely no injuries and I was more concerned about banging up the fork or derailleur on the curb. Thankfully no damage there either.

The guy I was riding with got a good laugh about it.

So I finally got the 'fall' over with, and hope to have at least another 2 years/7,000 miles (which ever comes first) before the next one.

PS: Lightspeed...please change my vote in your poll from 'no fall' to 'fallen'.

Yes, finally, twice. The first was smack dab in front of my house. The next was on the road out of town. Only one person to be seen for miles and I fell right in front of his driveway.

The days of anticipation were far worse than the actual falls.

One of the pleasures of Club Tombay membership is being aware that most clipless falls have a certain pattern............almost an arrogance if you will. Once one is certain that the device is mastered..........splat. There is a sort of Zen philosophy there............if you do not keep your self centered.................splat.

I myself have fallen 5 times due the infernal pedals and I will admit to all that I was quite certain that it couldn't happen to me. Now that I know better, unclipping is automatic. Why just the other day, when a rider in front of me hit the gate and crashed I said to myself............your going to be unable to get out of the pedals when you hit him (following too close). Sure enough, as I crashed, the proper mental attitude caused the pedals to release as if by magic and I promptley slammed forward into the stem.

I've never done the topple-over sort of fall. I switched this year from SPD mountain bike pedals to Speedplay Frogs, and as far as I can tell, it would be nigh onto impossible to topple over without being able to unclip in time. There's just zero resistance to unclipping. Twist 20 degrees and you're not clipped anymore. I highly recommend the for the fearful.

About 10 years ago, New bike. Speedplays. I'd always used toe clips before. First ride.

I unclipped about 50 yards, from a stop sign. accidentally clipped back in again as I was stopping.

Thump!

It was okay though. Didn't even leave much of a bruise.

There was this guy once from Bombay
Now in Oregon not far from Yaquina Bay
Switched to clipless over the weekend
Ended up promptly on his rear end
Now a proud member of Club Tombay!


Second ride after switching from toe clips. As I approached a red light while riding in the bike lane, tried to unclip left pedal and couldn't, got right one unclipped but the bike leaned over the wrong way. Have since lowered tension on pedals to lowest setting.

Sure, fell over when I was new to clipless pedals. Of course I had an audience. It's a bad feeling when your going down and you can't stop.

Almost fell once, right in front of our house, when I was first learning to use them. Just last week I went out and got a pair for my commute bike - I just can't do toe clips anymore. They feel dangerous.

After years of cycling with Clipless pedals with no incidents, it happened to me yesterday and to make it worse the bike handlebars went directly onto my chest on falling, necessitating a trip to the local ER with 3 cracked ribs, severe chest wall bruising, swelling and a whole load of pain... at least I get a couple of weeks rest....

When I first got them, I didn't tighten them enough, so that when I tried to twist out of the pedal, the clip moved instead. I fell over on my side, in slow motion, and had trouble getting my foot out. Of course there were a lot of folks around (at least it seemed so; probably only a couple but still. . . .).

Like most riders going from platform to clipless, I fell a few times when I first put them on the road bike. Only twice since then, once was to avoid crashing with another cyclist and couldn't unclip in time and the second time I went off the sidewalk and the front wheel went into a hole. However, I have had more falls (some more serious) while riding platform pedals than with my clipless.

I fell the first time riding in clipless, while grinding up a pitifully small and not very steep hill on my (brand new that day) mountain bike. I was barely making forward progress when I ran completely out of steam and toppled ever so slowly sideways. And of course, I couldn't get my foot out of the pedal. Not only that, I fell on the downslope, then watched in bemusement as my bike did a full loop over me, finishing up below me on the hill with my feet still clipped in.

Naturally, there was an audience. Who applauded.

As a result of being clipped in ?
Never fallen with clipless.
Came close with toe clips a couple of times but never fell.

I slid out on a patch of sand on pavement once and the clipless pedals released perfectly. I wound up on the pavement, the bike landed on the grass. If I were using toe clips I probably would have been hurt.

remember-- there are 2 kinds of riders... those who have fallen, and those who WILL FALL-- clipless or not

train safe

I've been riding in clipless pedals for about two months now. I've fallen three times.
Once because I came to a stoplight and forgot I was clipped in.
Once because I was waiting for a car to clear an intersection, and balanced left when my right foot was the one I unclipped. I slowly, and embarassingly fell onto my left side.
The most recent, a few weeks ago, I unclipped my right foot, and put it down on a wet cobblestone crosswalk. I braked my bike to a stop... forgetting I had smooth and slppery cleats on. I came to a stop, my foot did not. As it slid forward, I went down with it, my bike landing on top of me. All in front of ten cars waiting for the light to turn.

Stopped at a "T" intersection, waited for cross traffic.
When traffic passed I started the right turn, uphill.

I spun the pedal trying to clip in, clipped in on the second try and realized that I wasn't moving forward... but I wasn't falling.

[switching to Super Slo-mo... actual elapsed time, about 0.4 seconds]

Head to feet: "Hey, guys -- move it or lose it!"
Feet to head: "We're trying -- can't budge the cranks!"

Ears to head: "Do you hear that?"
Head to ears: "I hear it, but I can't figure out what it is."

Eyes to head: "Uh, this doesn't look right."
Head to eyes: "Do I have to do everything around here?"

Before I could figure out what was wrong and unclip, it was all over and I was under the pickup truck that ran up over me from behind.

Does that count?

^ Yeow! Glad you lived thru it!

Clipless: Not yet, but close
Toe Clips: Kinda
platforms: Yes, but due to doing stupid s*&t as a kid

Been riding clipless now for 2-3 months. Almost fell when I was on a path (wooded), and a lady came out of the trees, preceded by her two dogs on leashes... stretched across the path. I didn't get unclipped, but stopped to avoid hitting the dogs, and managed a track stand long enough for her to pull them back. The this is going to hurt was starting to go thru my head, but I managed to take off without falling.

Rode into the garage once while learning clipping/unclipping and couldn't get unclipped at first, but managed as well.

Toe clips/straps: I almost fell one of the first times I used cleated shoes. I thought it would look better to tuck the ends of the straps into the slots on the buckles. Looked great until I got to the red light... Fortunately, there was a telephone pole or the stoplight pole right next to me, so I held myself up until I got the strap loosened.

Yes, I fell once, but I feel there were extenuating circumstances:

I live on a gravel road -- it's 3 miles to the pavement. Usually I put my road bike in the car and drive myself to the highway, but sometimes my wife will drop me off and then, later, come get me.

So one day 3 years ago I called her for a ride home. I waited awhile but didn't see her coming. The gravel road hadn't been graded recently, so there was a track where the cars travel that had little gravel on it. I decided to ride at least part way home.

I rode about 1/2 mile and then I saw my wife coming. I kept on pedaling, assuming she would stop when we met. As she was getting closer and closer, I was thinking that she was going to stop at any second. But no! At the last moment I had to veer off into the deep, loose gravel and over I went before I could get my feet free. She went on by, turned around and came back. Her comment was that I should have known that the road was too narrow for her to turn around where we met, so I shouldn't have expected her to stop (the only time my wife uses the phrase "I'm sorry" is when it goes something like this: "I'm sorry you didn't have the sense to get out of the way!).

Worry about clipless pedals? Not me (as least not normally). What I worry about is that our youngest kid will be going off to college next month, so there won't be anyone left to taste the food my wife gives me before I eat it.

Amazing! All this honesty and candor about the dangers of being unable to get free of your bike leading to falls and injury!

But common sense still doesn't tell the clipless rider to use a different safer pedal.

Oh well. Some people just have a death wish.

Second day of using my new Shimano 530s. First clipless pedal. Fell right over in my own driveway. Should have leaned right, where I was already unclipped, but I just kept trying to unclip the left.

Whoops.

Elbow, pedal: scraped. Mirror: loosened & tightened. Overall, no big deal.

Never on a ride. Just leaning against my car in the garage while checking and adjusting my position.

I guess I should get in the habit of unclipping on both sides when coming to a stop. All of my tipovers have been stopping with one shoe unclipped, but then something unexpected causes me to lean the other way, and...

Yes, I've fallen on several occasions. But lately I've gotten better. DOH! Hope I didn't just jinx myself.