When you .....

dilemna
dilemna Posts: 2,187
edited June 2011 in Commuting chat
..... click out, do you put your left heel in or your left heel out, your right heel out or your right heel in or do you simply pull up?

Just curious.

I'm left heel out then right heel in.
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  • u05harrisb
    u05harrisb Posts: 531
    both heel out, you could hit the frame or wheel if you clip in towards the bike
  • dilemna
    dilemna Posts: 2,187
    u05harrisb wrote:
    both heel out, you could hit the frame or wheel if you clip in towards the bike

    You maybe could, but I don't.
    Life is like a roll of toilet paper; long and useful, but always ends at the wrong moment. Anon.
    Think how stupid the average person is.......
    half of them are even more stupid than you first thought.
  • yocto
    yocto Posts: 86
    RIght heel out, then left heel out.

    Tried right heel in once and nearly fell off my bike!
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  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    It's not possible to read the OP without getting the hokey-cokey in your mind.

    Me? Left heel out, unclip, lean on that side.
  • Agent57
    Agent57 Posts: 2,300
    Left heel out.

    Left, because if I'm stopping in traffic I prefer to put my foot down curbside, and I prefer to push off with my right leg anyway.

    If I'm unclipping totally, then I follow up with a right heel out.
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  • HamishD
    HamishD Posts: 538
    CiB wrote:
    It's not possible to read the OP without getting the hokey-cokey in your mind.

    My sentiments entirely - still waiting for the punchline!
  • KonaMike
    KonaMike Posts: 805
    I always unclip heel out ! Left first and then the right,as above I like to put my kerbside foot down .
  • bdave262000
    bdave262000 Posts: 270
    u05harrisb wrote:
    both heel out, you could hit the frame or wheel if you clip in towards the bike

    Yes had a panic moment at speed where I did right heal in, straight into my spokes.
    Fat lads take longer to stop.
  • Blandiblub
    Blandiblub Posts: 134
    Haven't moved on to SPDs yet (still the flats the bike came with) but, being left handed, and, so, left footed too, I'm thinking that I'll tend to unclip right foot and lean that way. Probably not the best way round on the road but I think it'll be quite unnatural to go the other way.

    Of course, my left leg tends to be better to take off from too.

    Any other lefties with SPDs?
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 72,533
    Leftie here.

    Right heel out.

    Great for when you want to put your foot onto the curb abroad
    _
  • t4tomo
    t4tomo Posts: 2,643
    HamishD wrote:
    CiB wrote:
    It's not possible to read the OP without getting the hokey-cokey in your mind.

    My sentiments entirely - still waiting for the punchline!

    right heel in left heel out

    in out in out kerbside foot down

    do the unclippy but get it wrong

    you're on your ass right in the road

    Ohhhhhhh the unclippy
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  • gadgets
    gadgets Posts: 100
    right heel out first when stopping and right foot down

    when starting out, I clip in with the left foot first. I always unclip with the right foot when I see a possible problem.
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  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    right heel out.

    don't know why - just do......instinctive.
  • chilling
    chilling Posts: 267
    Left heel out. then right out if' I'm getting off.
  • Too old for this
    Too old for this Posts: 128
    Left heel out first, it's a motorbike thang 8)
  • ThatBikeGuy
    ThatBikeGuy Posts: 394
    Left heel in then Right heel in if i am getting off of the bike. Feels easier doing it inwards rather than outwards. :?
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  • cloggsy
    cloggsy Posts: 243
    u05harrisb wrote:
    both heel out, you could hit the frame or wheel if you clip in towards the bike

    +1 - Left first (i.e. stopping at lights etc.) then right (if I'm getting off!)

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