No, I was never fearful. I went clipless in '88 with SPDS on my mountain bike and eventually on a tandem and road bikes. I switched to egg beaters in 2005 and those are just as easy.

The motion of clipping in and clipping out has always seemed very intuitive to me and I am always a bit surprised by how many women seem to struggle with it.

Yes, I've had a few clipless falls - scars on my knee from one particularly stupid one that happened while I was standing still, but still had one foot clipped in. The others were from from dirty or loose cleats. I've had some spectacular mountain bike crashes and always came unclipped.

Veronica