Look Easy Pedals

[chatnoire]

Indysteel gave you tons of good advice, but I'm chiming in too.

1. Yes. You will fall. My knees are still a bit off looking, but the attached photo is from (not my first) ride with clipless pedals. The things that I found made me fall:

• Too many things needed my attention
• uneven ground
• not unclipping soon enough
• unclipping too soon and accidentally clipping back in
• staying in the seat when unclipped and rolling to a stop
• not having a stop spot planned

It took a lot of thinking/planning ahead, but as long as I unclipped (and for me, it's always the right side out first, coast into the stop on the left while standing on the pedal, then stop and lean right, unclip left) ahead of time, I was mostly ok. I couldn't talk to people until I was stopped, uneven/angled pavement was rough (cause of the attached photo) and if I let it, anxiety in general got to me.

I'm a bit better now, but still, I get anxious, and you will too for a bit, I'm sure, but planning ahead for possible hazards is the best way to mitigate that.

As far as pedals, I have the Look Kéo 2 Max pedals, and wear them with the grey cleats. The tension is adjusted into the middle area, and I like it a lot. The cleats do wear out though, if you do any walking on them. They also have different colored cleats for closing up the amount of float (freedom to move while clipped in) in your pedals.

I had the Speedplay Zeros for a bit, and hated them. Switched to the Speedplay Light Action, and ripped the cleat apart first time out, so I wasn't thrilled with speedplay. I've loved every minute of my Look pedals.

Good luck!