OK Got my SPD Shoes

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If you ride a tandem( yes, I know but bear with me) and you're trying to do the kind of sopisticated stop/start in traffic which involves only the pilot unclipping one foot () and both backsides staying in respective saddles, then you unclip from the high side - the left if there's a curb in range of your foot, but probably the right if there isn't, given the camber of the road.

yes that makes perfect sense given the camber but rather than risk leaning into the road and traffic wouldn't it be safer for the steerer to unclip both feet and stand over the top tube ?

 

[peanut]

[quote name='swee'pea99']I had a clipless moment off-road when my daughter suddenly stopped dead right in front of me and my front wheel just overlapped with her rear wheel. Fortunately my fall was broken by a big soft patch of nettles.[/quote]

and you couldn't even have a good effinandblindin

 

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Originally Posted by briank
If you ride a tandem( yes, I know but bear with me) and you're trying to do the kind of sopisticated stop/start in traffic which involves only the pilot unclipping one foot () and both backsides staying in respective saddles, then you unclip from the high side - the left if there's a curb in range of your foot, but probably the right if there isn't, given the camber of the road.

yes that makes perfect sense given the camber but rather than risk leaning into the road and traffic wouldn't it be safer for the steerer to unclip both feet and stand over the top tube ?

I too tend to unclip my left foot rather than my right - but not always. On a couple of roads road here, the camber and hills mean that the 'high side' is on the right and it seems easier to unclip that way.

I find I'm not leaning into traffic doing so, as I stop far enough away from the kerb to stop cars trying to squeeze past me that I'm already in the path of traffic. In fact I rarely stop close enough to the kerb to put my foot on it.

 

[peanut]

I suppose the deciding factor for me is that I always swing my right leg over the bike and clip in my right foot first because I am right side strong and always push off with the right foot clipped in especially if facing up a slight incline. This means I tend to unclip left foot .