A bit too one-sided

[Catrin]

The other night I was on my Gunnar and took a shortcut across some grass to try and grap a gap in traffic on a very busy street in front of where I live. Normally it wouldn't have been a problem, but there was a couple of feet of pretty steep stuff and I didn't realize until it was too late that I was in far too hard a gear for it...

I've wondered if I could get out of my Frogs in an emergency, and I did indeed get my right foot on the ground in time. I couldn't unclip my left foot however - I think due to the angle of the grade and my body position. I just could not turn my foot to get out and I finally fell over and very slow motion.

Once I fell over I STILL couldn't unclip for the same reason. If it had been a normal fall my foot would have come out automatically, but this wasn't a "normal" fall and my body was pointed downhill so I couldn't move my leg easily to unclip. I felt a bit like a turtle in the grass and my Camelbak just added to that feeling

A walker was coming my way who I could tell was getting more and more concerned when I didn't bounce back up. I finally managed to shift my bike enough that I could move my leg and get out of the pedal.

If I wasn't so blasted one-sided I could have unclipped from the OTHER side and then I would have been more balanced and likely wouldn't have been "stuck". No harm done and am thankful there isn't a blackmail video - though it would have been very funny

[sarahkonamojo]

Uh, yes recently I fell into a yucca. (Fell to the right, of course.) But I couldn't unclip, my foot was pushed into the dirt below the yucca. I had to remove my shoe. Lucky the velcro straps were easy. And getting my shoe out of the cleat was easy, too.
Embarrassing. And kind of funny.