Never mind the bike tipping, Jennifer!

Get your butt off the seat, plant your unclipped foot firmly on the ground! Don't stay on the seat and try to be tippee toe and hope to stay upright -- safer on the ground! That's my theory, it's worked so far, and I'm sticking to it!

That and think ahead. Someday, perhaps there will be a "no time to think" moment, but hopefully, by then, those pedals will be so automatic....

Skiing -- yes, bindings is a good comparison, though it's easier to see what you're doing clipping into ski bindings....

Karen in Boise, a fellow clipless newbie!