I've been on my road bike for a couple months now. They happily sent my 54 year old self home with clipless peddles from the store. Yikes!

I am someone who likes to make my mistakes alone. So I did the whole thing--getting used to the new position, changed center of gravity, clipless peddles, squirrelly feeling with the lighter bike all at once. I took rides on low traffic areas. I fell. It wasn't pretty.

I'm still here.

Maybe what you don't know...is a good thing.