Cleat release-which direction do you?

[tantrumbean]

Heels out (with spd's) for me...

[Tokie]

Heels out - usually when the pedal is at 3 o'clock. but it's much better for your knees (and probably ankles too) if you can force yourself to develop the habit of clipping out when your pedal is at 6 o'clock, the bottom of the pedal stroke. I'm trying to change! Tokie

[OakLeaf]

it's much better for your knees (and probably ankles too) if you can force yourself to develop the habit of clipping out when your pedal is at 6 o'clock, the bottom of the pedal stroke.

Are you sure that's better for your knees? I'm not a PT or anything, but it really seems like the more my leg is extended, the more the movement torques the knee and even the hip... when the knee's at 90 degrees, it's pretty much isolated to the ankle.

[sundial]

Heel out for me cuz I'm a Froggie fan.

[aicabsolut]

It's really a gentle movement, quick, and pretty isolated to the ankle.

I move my heel out. I think if I tried moving it inward, I'd just run into my crankarm. I want to move my leg outward anyway to clear the bike and step down.

[ny biker]

For me it's heel in with the right foot, out with the left foot.

Due to scar tissue in my right ankle from surgery on a tendon back in '93, it hurts to go heel out with my right foot.

But the guys at the LBS told me that heel out was the correct way to go.

[Zen]

Maybe I should have just made this a poll.