1st Clip-In Shoe Ride

[Tri Girl]

Great job!!! Falling isn't a matter of if, it's a matter of when. Hopefully you'll beat the odds and never have to kiss the pavement.

[mcminn]

Great job!!! Falling isn't a matter of if, it's a matter of when. Hopefully you'll beat the odds and never have to kiss the pavement.

I know the kisser will meet the pavement some day, but I'm glad it wasn't my first go. As a clumsy newbie, I need all the positive experiences I can get to cement in my scared wee brain that this cycling thing is good fun instead of screaming terror.

[eclectic]

congratulations! Isn't it a great feeling?

Re falling - I have fallen more before I went clipless than after - go figure on that one!
Of the couple of times I tipped over clipless I was going less than 2 miles per hour, didn't think I was clipped in and I was oooops! over I went

tctrek - you win for the best clipless fall story I have ever heard

[Andrea]

TCTrek- I had a good shameless-clipless fall over the weekend, too. I was pre riding a really tough gravel road section of a race course... I made it through some tough stuff- a frakin' steep (~15% grade) hill, deep gravel, hairy descent on said deep gravel, fishtailing, you name it, I did it.

Then I passed someone I knew who had a flat. I decided I'd turn around at the top of the hill to go back and meet him. At crawling speed, I hit a beer bottle stuck down in some really deep gravel on the far side of the road and tipped over I stayed clipped in, of course, and had to wrestle with my bike to get out of it and back on the road. Luckily, noone saw me