One of my strap ends managed to get wedged in with my shoe on my ride home today. Stopping at a red light, I started to pull my left foot out of my strap like I always do and to my horror, it wouldn't budge. I wasn't moving, so I just did the slo-mo clipless fall that I always hear about, but it was with straps for me.. Even as I was lying on the ground, It still took me a minute to get the strap loose. A lot of drivers got a good laugh i'm sure.

Yeah.... I've done that. Sigh. Feel initiated now? lol

Welcome to the club.

And hi Queso!!!

I joined the club Tombay about a week ago when I tried to make a tight U-turn outside of my house and hit the ridge of some black ice...

Black ice....

queso's hot, id tap that if i were a cat

You should all check out Queso's blog...okay, maybe not Nate. I know how he doesn't like cats that much.

https://quesocat.blogspot.com/

I took a similar fall last week but I use clippless pedals. I took my fall right infront of about 5 people and it was pretty embarrasing. My left knee still feels a little out of whack. That was my first clipless fall in over 5 years. If I would have hit my head I would have been just fine but the knee. OUCH

I was under the impression everyone on this forum performed track stands at every red...

I decleated today in the middle of an intersection and landed myself on the top tube. I'm sure drivers got a good laugh
hipsters and wannabe roadies only

TOTALLY HAPPENED TO ME TODAY~!!

I got to the light, pulled my left foot out, somehow the bike's center of balance was too far to the right, and down I went... Raining cats and dogs, I swear I went straight into a lake. No bumps or bruises except the ride to the pet store with soaking pants...

Similar story today, I mis-cleated and my jewels came in contact with my saddle...HARD.

Mis-cleated? So you missed the pedal or slipped off? Slipping was way too common with my LOOK pedals and I bashed my nuts a few too many times with them. All this is made so much worse by fixed gears

I slipped and slid down into my saddle. I thought I was clipped in and BAM!!!

That sorta happened to me once on my road bike when I had the single sided spd/platform combo pedals. Foot made contact with the wrong side, slipped off and my tail bone hit the saddle.. HARD. It hurt for a month and I had to sit sideways. Probably bruised..

I can trackstand, but not for long, so if the light's not gonna change for a while (you can tell here by looking at the walk signal) then I don't bother.

This happened to me the other day. I went to pull my feet out of my homemade straps and I tipped over onto the asphalt. Not one of my finest cycling moments...

last night I went to slow down so check my cleats because I felt a lot of play on my left pedal and my crank arm fell off and I nearly fell off my bike because it was still attached to my shoe (spds) so I couldn't really stand.

Ah the old "crank arm still attached to your clipless shoe" trick.

Gets me every time.

That's the funniest thing I've ever heard of.

I wish I was clipped in when my crank came off last year. I noticed the play so I rode home on legged and it flew off at the bottom of a hill

One time my friend(who isn't really bike savvy) lost/broke his pedals, so he shoved some type of wooden pegs in the ends of the cranks and rode it like that.

Now we all need to meet up and tell our mis-cleating, foot slipping, foot sticking crank arm fallling off stories while having a few strong drinks!

I had a non-drive side crank arm fall off in the middle of an alleycat, so I rode back to my apartment one legged and switched bikes.
The whole time I was pedaling one legged up hill from Georgetown to NE I was thinking:
"This is gonna be a great story to tell on the internet."
And I was right.

waiting for the '... felt something a little loose, and then my non-drive leg fell off. it was such a mess and quite embarrassing."

I'm glad I don't actually ride my bike and will never have to deal with anything like this.

Had a guy cut in front of me on my weekly group ride last week, he stopped. I tried to pull feet out, but strap was a but too tight, fell and ass cheek landed on his back wheel. Still have a big bruise from the axle bolt.

bhop, you're full of bloody stories lately. If I ever leave mid-Missouri for LA, I'm steering clear of you man. Nothing personal.