Clipless fall

Utterly embarrassing, looked left to ensure no one was coming up my inside, misjudged the road camber whilst clipped in and over I went. Thank you to the gent who picked me up and where was the hole to swallow me?

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[newlyborn09]

lol i've done this a few times...people look at you like...'what happened??' because you just randomly and slowly fall to the ground

[Digitalfiendscom]

I still haven't fallen in 3 years riding a road bike but the first week of going clipless I had a few near falls. Happened twice pulling into my driveway, came up to the garage door then realised that I was still clipped in but my feet were in the wrong position to allow me to twist out. Started to topple and the shear tug from my leg kicking out to balance myself pulled me out of the pedal.  Looked funny and awkward as hell. Had a few similar incidences at stop signs, but no falls, luckily!

[TemperatureIndicator]

@jdawg4334 I love the acceleration. I ride a fixed and always aim at beating cars at the starting line, ie the red light :) One day I may go to clipless plus only when they create some converses that have the clip on the bottom of it...I'm all about style :D

[jdawg4334]

Happens to the best of us.

[jdawg4334]

@TemperatureIndicator Hahaha, loosen up your straps then! You don't have to run them velodrome tight. And when you buy clipless, you're also buying 2 or 3 falls with it. Some people get lucky and never fall but almost everyone falls a couple of times. You've just gotta accept it and be prepared for when you do fall.

[TemperatureIndicator]

I ride toe straps on my fixed gear. People have suggested I should go to clipless but I'd always be worried that I'd forget to unclip myself or that I did the screws too tight. Of course I learnt the hard way that if you pull the straps tight to your shoe, it is pretty much the same and you topple over. That one hurt, and the time after that, and the time after that, and yesterday. Damn, I've got to buy some normal pedals, or possibly buy a brain :)

[LQzak]

never ever once stacked it because of clipless pedals.

[jpoodle]

This is me three years ago, fell once at a red light. Thought I was gonna put my foot down for the light & forgot I had the new pedals on, & went right to my left & fell. lol. Haven't fallen since partly because of the shame, haha. Don't worry, it's easy but you tend to forget the first day, or so I'm told.

[mschwodler]

fair play to the gent who helped you up

[moviemyles100]

this video makes me feel better about the many times that i have fallen over.

i can obviously see that you are riding in london and you where lucky to get help up, normally people just stare at me like i am a retard

[SlapMarket]

@jopoy456

It's actually worse than stalling a car lol.

I fell at an intersection with my little dog in my backpack. He jump out, pissed on some bushes, while I was on the ground trying to un-clip, the whole intersection was watching, I had to chase my dog and put him back in my backpack, my bike did not have a kickstand, and I was on the tougher gears trying to make it through on the walk light.

[jopoy456]

It's like stalling with a manual.