Please share your stories--tough first time in real bike shoes

[happysurfer]

This is a good way to hurt your hand/wrist/collar bone. Sometimes things happen very fast but I try to remember to keep hold of the bars when I fall - this allows our sides to take the brunt of the fall and that is a lot stronger than those little bones in the wrist/palm and so forth. That being said, hopefully this won't happen very often, especially for road riding

Never thought of holding onto the bars! Will try to remember that! but honestly, after that first fall, it's been very easy to clip in/ out and the pedals have helped me be a better rider. Now I know what people mean when they say different muscles engage when you're clipped in.

You're right about the injury...wrist bone fractures are very difficult to diagnose and can go untreated if there aren't any symptoms.