So how was it? On mine I just fell because I didnt knew how I could unclip my shoe.

I knew how to unclip, and fell off the first day, anyway. How ever I did it, I did exactly the same thing the second day. While steep, the learning curve was also short.

Much later, I set up another bike with the same type pedal, and got on without checking the adjustment. Too tight, and I was afraid I was going to have to find something to lean upon till I could get someone to unfasten the shoe. Fortunately, I was able to break loose and avoid that particular embarassment.

Me too. 4 rides so far with clipless pedals and 2 falls!

I was going around the same block a lot of times until i could unclip it, luckily that time I didnt fall

i got mine last winter so I got used to them on the trainer before putting them into action on the street. That said, I have had a couple of close calls on the street but was much more comfortable having the practice while my bike was propped up on the trainer.

94 and I got mine. Had a couple of practice rides and no problem but first test was a 100 mile offroad ride. did fine till about 4 hours in and then stopped and just forgot to unclip. Slow motion fall followed.

Learn to trackstand. Has got me out of a lot of embarrassing tumbles.

I just rode around a bit..and it was fine.

i didn't crash for about 2 weeks/200 miles of riding...went up a hill, had problems shifting to small chainring, lost too much speed, slow motion fall on 15% grade with traffic.

First day with clipless was fine. Every ride was fine until one day I blacked out for a few seconds while on my bike and came to a stop without clipping out. I woke up very quickly, got up and clipped back in. Fortunately I have only fallen off my bike once since I was a teenager.

I went from the old toe clips and straps to clipless, then after some practice on a trainer. I have fallen twice, but once from a cramp that prevented my foot from twisting properly. That fall caused a Look cleat to break and a piece to fly over a few other cyclists head in the parking lot.

I'm just waiting for some idiot to claim that "everybody falls"



+1 on trackstanding though, that helps.

My first ride was fine. I got my pedals in at work and decided to take them for a spin at lunch. Everything went swimmingly.

When I was riding home at the end of the work day I fell though. I stopped to adjust one of the cleats and I pulled my foot back instead of twisting, as though I still had the PowerGrips on. Probably just tired and wasnt' thinking. I've fallen a few other times when I was really tired and forgot that I had to put my foot down at all! Hell, that's happened a couple of times with platforms, though I was able to get ground underfoot those times.

Trackstanding is helpful, yeah. I'm still paranoid enough that I unclip my left foot and pedal with the arch of my foot at the stop light.

Sure, sure, the old "cramp" excuse

Hey umd...... everyone falls

I preemptively called you an idiot to get around any issues of "personal attacks"

When I first got them, I sat on the bike, held onto a wall, clipped and unclipped a bunch oh times. Then closed my eye and did it a few more times. Then rode very slowly around a parking lot so I could get used to clipping in and out at near stopped speeds.

After 2000 miles, I finally fell once. I was trying to do a skid on the fixed gear bike, in a warehouse, went down but I'm glad it happened there. The floor is so smooth.

Two rides, no falls yet.

I don't not remenber too many details of that day. I do remember thinking that 'clipless' pedals were the best invention since they put peanutbutter and jelly in the same jar!

I just wish they still made Rivat shoes. they were fabulous.

Years ago. Did not fall. I grew up with clips and straps. In comparison, clipless is easy-peasy.

First day was fine. Been a couple years and I've yet to fall because of my pedals, although I've fallen many times thanks to snow and ice while using them.

I don't see what the big deal is with clipping out, for me it's clipping in that involves practice and mistakes. Especially with my new road pedals.

No problem. Clipless was/is a lot easier to escape than cleats clips & straps, which I'd been using for 25+ years. Never looked back.

EVERYONE falls while learning to use clipless pedals. Anyone who says they didn't is a liar. The secret is that most clipless-related falls are not private, they occur when there is the biggest crowd of people standing around to see you tumble.

Everyone except those of us coming from old fashioned clips and straps. You had to reach down and release the strap by hand and then wiggle your foot out.

I resent being called a liar. I didn't fall when learning. My one humiliating tumble came after riding through days of rain on the unpaved sections of the Stewart-Cassiar Highway, in northern BC.

I swooped into a roadside pull-off, screeched to a halt in fron of a busload of tourists, and promptly tumbled on my side. The return springs on my SPDs had rusted and become clogged with grit and dreaded calcium chloride (used for dust control).

Three rides, one fall (into the freeway). Not worth it. When I got home I took off the clipless pedals and put old ones back on.

Another idiot reveals himself.

First time I rode clipless...I fell over onto my neighbors lawn, the one who has a spotlight on his front lawn, as well as a camera, and every night runs a chain across the driveway...

I never got up so fast in my life...