Falling Off

I just fitted a set of SPD pedals to my road bike and had my first go clipped in. Within ten minutes I'd fallen off twice, once into a hedge and wall, breaking the latter and the second time just on to my side, spraining my hand/wrist and grazing my knee and ankle.
So anyway, I was just wondering if many other forumites had embarrassing falling off tales to share?
So anyway, I was just wondering if many other forumites had embarrassing falling off tales to share?

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Some people start their SPD career by fitting one side only. They practice release drills to embed muscle memory and start out on some safe ground like a grassy knoll.
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Just worth confirming that you mean 'twist off' to the side and that you're not actually trying to pull them off by lifting ?
It's a rights of passage.
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never fell either in them
(now ive said it im gonna faceplant!)
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That water was cold & I received no sensible pieces of advice on how to get up without getting soaked.
Mine was on my mountain bike. Sideways into the biggest puddle of mud within miles. Bike ended up on top of me and I couldn't clip out from that position.
Luckily, nobody was around to see it.
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He must be. You can wind the tension full up on SPD pedals and yet still twist out nice and easily when the technique is a twist of the heel outward with no lift.
I've only ever come close when my chain dropped as I was standing up to accelerate out of a junction.. and even then I still unclipped in time.
I seriously don't see how people have these 'clipless moments'
It's not so much memory issues for me as panic issues, if I stall I need out quick and for some reason when you need out quick, your feet just didn't want to unclip.
Not fallen on the road while clipped in yet, but then there's a lot less reasons to be stopping suddenly on the road and I've tuned clipping out to go with knowing I'm about to stop, which is a bit different from going up a a slight rise and miss judging the ability to roll over a rock.
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My best story is I kitted out one of my friends with my old SPDs, when teaching him into clipping in/out he seemed to pick it up pretty quickly but I wanted him to do a few laps of his road before we hit the road properly, moral of the story, he quickly got co(c)ky about it - next minute he pulls up to me, literally balancing the bike intentionally, forgets to clip out and topples over in ultra slow motion.
WISH I had filmed it.
On all my bikes, despite knowing that all springs are set at their loosest, the left foot is always more difficult to remove.
This indicates either I need to set up the cleat differently on the left foot, or my left foot has a different range of motion from my right... Which is odd as it's my right ankle that's got problems.
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Instinct says;
‘if required to execute an emergency stop, lift foot from pedal and place on ground, bringing bicycle to rest in an upright position’.
What it most definitely doesn’t say is;
‘if required to execute an emergency stop, realise at the last instant your foot is nailed to the pedal, panic, and struggle briefly to pull free by brute force, forgetting to twist cleat free, then fall sideways onto road surface to the general amusement of the watching public, bringing bicycle to rest in a horizontal position’
In my case, the second time I was out on my shiny new road bike, I was forced to stop suddenly when a car jumped the red in front of me. Cue a slow-motion fall onto the pavement beside a bus. I looked up to see the faces of several small children gawping from the bus window. I could almost hear their question;
“Mummy, why is that man rolling about on the pavement with a bike on top of him and blood pouring out of his knee?”
“Because he’s a [email protected] darling”
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1. Anyone who uses clipless pedals and says "I haven't fallen off" and omitted the "...yet" from the end of the sentence.
2. When you've been out for a ride with your domestique and decide to pull a massive childish skid, remember you're clipped in.
Good form to not have your dork disk on though!
Suppose its all a learning curve hu? It is tough getting used to clip-in pedals though!
Describes my fall today almost perfectly... its the worst...especially busting parts of your new bike!!