16 days ago I could. not. unclip. After that I really cranked those pedals as loose as possible, nearly bending my little hex wrench. I also lubed the pedals up well (with a light lube, similar to WD-40). It helps most of the time, but sometimes I still cannot get my left foot unclipped. Before lubing they were always overly tight. Now it's erratic...sometimes it's relatively easy to unclip, then there are times like today when *SURPRISE* I can't get unclipped and down I go.

The pisser is that my left knee had just finally stopped being crusty and scabby. Now it's a bloody mess, again. Left elbow is banged-up, too.

Now I'm regretting not going with Look pedals like my hubby's. He's had 0 issues with his. But it was only AFTER having issues with my 105 SPD-SLs that I did some looking around and discovered that there are others who have been frustrated with this pedal system, for the same reason. All the reviews I saw when researching pedals were pretty much glowing. But when I started searching for release issues, after the fact, I've found quite a few threads on various cycling boards...