Quote Originally Posted by spokewench
The question is this? What are you scared of? If you are wearing a helmet and you fall because of clipless pedals, you are only going about 1 mile an hour when you fall! The odds of hurting yourself seriously are very minimal!

A little scrape or a bruise. Those are just marks of Bike Honor! You will love those clipless once you are used to them.
Well, maybe that's part of it. Falling is always scarier if you've never done it, and I've never fallen off a bike. And I suppose maybe with a helmet I'd have more confidence. I know I'm going to get completely blasted for this, but I don't currently wear one (I don't wear one on my horse either, it's not an adjustment I've yet made). It's at the top of my "list of things to buy". No lectures, please - there's no point - I"m getting one asap. Now I just have to figure out how the bike is more dangerous than the horse.