clipless pedal falls poll

[SadieKate]

I'm a hybrid, so I can't really vote.

• I have never fallen on a road bike with clipless pedals. . . .

The poll didn't specify the type of bikes involved.

I fell a couple of times when I first started seriously road riding but once was a stupid U-turn move on my part that I'd probably do today without thinking and the other was because someone pushed me into a pothole as we were starting up at a stoplight.

I don't recall ever falling on my mtb due to the pedals. Lots of other reasons for falls, but not the pedals.

I hated cages and definitely fell because of those. And riding on platforms is equally scary as I have a hard time keeping my feet on the pedals at times, and there are times when a hard one-legged pull up on the pedal has saved my tookas.

[Tater]

I hated cages and definitely fell because of those. And riding on platforms is equally scary as I have a hard time keeping my feet on the pedals at times, and there are times when a hard one-legged pull up on the pedal has saved my tookas.

Ditto with me! I found cages to be more dangerous, but that was just my experience with them. Riding platforms I am more liable to play 'outrigger' and end up hurting myself rather than just staying with the bike.

[fastdogs]

I've only been riding for a year and a half, mountain biking for less than that. I've never tried clipless.
My friend got me some toe clips for my birthday this year, and I put them on my hybrid.
I really liked them, and was quite proud of never having fallen in them, when I had my first fall. Just forgot I was in them when I stopped, and toppled over onto the grass laughing.
The next time I fell wasn't funny, and scared me out of using them- I've taken them off the hybrid and gone back to platforms.
I was trying out a new route and changed my mind and decided to go back the way I'd come, and started to turn around. But a car was coming, so I stopped to wait and forgot I had my feet in the clips. I was at the top of an asphalt driveway with a steep downhill slope, and fell that way.
It hurt so bad I had to just stand for a while and wait for the pain to ease off so I could ride again. I still have some spectacular bruises all over my right side, and my knee is very sore to put weight on (kneeling or crawling up on a tailgait or something).
I never tried the toe clips on the mountain bike, because I still just simply fall over sometimes- in sand or mud, or when trying to climb a steep slope- would you have time to unclip in those cases?
vickie

[Aint Doody]

In spite of falling several times in the beginning, I cannot imagine riding without the clipless pedals. I don't even think about unclipping any more. I do it subconsciously, I guess.

[SouthernBelle]

- would you have time to unclip in those cases?
vickie

Once you learn to use them you unclip and remove your foot about as quickly as you would just remove your foot from a platform.

[Jiffer]

None of the poll replies fits me. I fell once, but not when I was learning to use them. I was just distracted when pulling into my driveway, didn't turn to the right fast enough, ended up in the grass and, when I knew I was about to go over, started getting the right foot unclipped, because that's what I'm used to unclipping when I stop .... however I was falling to the LEFT, so I over I went!

My dh has fallen at a red light from not unclipping in time.

[Trek420]

I took to clipless like a duck to water, never fell during the learning process.

My F.U. (failure to unclip ) always happen:
at intersections
when lots of riders are watching