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I really enjoyed riding clipless and I never fell off!! :D
I definitely felt I had more power although I thought my time would have improved more than it did from what I've heard.
Let me know what you think.
Here are the stat's
BTW It's quite a hilly route
Normal
Time 1.10.01
Dst' 12.97
Av' 11.5
Mx' 29.6
cals 279.9
Clipless
Tm 107.18
Dst' 12.97
Av' 11.5
Mx' 33.1
cals 323.7
Sorry folks I tried to put them side by side for easy reference but it wouldn't work.
Awesome Roadrunner!
Be proud that you didn't fall over with those new pedals!!! :D
Have any of you done that fall over, jump back up really really fast? :p
oohhoohhoohh me mee meee, my pedals are not real new to me, I have been using them since about March, I was riding Sunday and was 25 miles into a 29 mile ride, I stopped and bought a coke to help me on the last hills :o and was throwing my bottle into the trash can, right foot clipped in left on the ground and next thing I knew I was falling over! I couldn't get my right foot out quick enough. I skinned my right knee, I have scratches on my left leg?? and a skinned elbow. I still don't know why I fell :confused:
There was a man on the other side of the gas pump I was at and he came running over asking if I was ok, I jumped up and said "yep, I couldn't get my foot out quick enough" :o I checked my bike over then stepped over to get on it when I realized my knee was burning, I had to get my papertowel out of the pack and wipe it down, I was shaking by then, not sure if it was the Coke - I never drink regular Coke - or just falling. so see, it can happen whether your new to them or not :D I have ridden a hundred or som miles in them before I fell :p
I've been using clipless pedals for about two years now and I still fell over last night. I was riding in a pack and the riders in front of me slowed suddenly to avoid a road hazard. Usually, this group is good about calling out if they are slowing or stopping like that but it was near the end of the ride and I think the focus had relaxed some. I realized I was gaining ground on the wheel in front of me so I slowed up and tried to clip out in case they were stopping instead of slowing. Well, my foot didn't clip out. My cleats had gotten some mud in them over the weekend and I'm guessing I didn't clean them as well as I should have and that's why it got stuck. I yanked a little harder with my foot and got it to unclip but in doing so, I lost my balance and went over... in front of about 30 people. I was more embarrassed than hurt and scrambled back on my bike quickly to continue the ride. You almost hope that if you jump back on the bike fast enough, no one will notice that you fell. Of course, everyone did notice but they were nice about it. The reaction of most of the riders was been there, done that or it happens to the best of us.