What can I expect from riding clipped in ...?

[Apollonius]

Those wheel things are dangerous. Have you seen how they roll off down a hill with nothing to stop them. Ah, yes, Brakes. I once went over the handlebars and smashed my front teeth because of brakes. Unnecessary and dangerous. Don't have them on your bike. And I once hurt myself catching my knee on the handlebars. Get those off too. And I once got a sore on my bum from the saddle. Who needs those?

In fact, for normal people at normal speeds, the couch is the only safe place to be.

 

[tommaguzzi]

Not spurious. clippies cause people to fall off. I have been a victim of them and witnessed it in others.
Everyone I have ever talked to has had at least a 'moment' at one time or another.
It is my opinion that they are dangerous and for leisure riding provide little or no benefit for all the extra risk invoved by using them.
Just saying.

 

[PhilDawson8270]

Not spurious. clippies cause people to fall off. I have been a victim of them and witnessed it in others.
Everyone I have ever talked to has had at least a 'moment' at one time or another.
It is my opinion that they are dangerous and for leisure riding provide little or no benefit for all the extra risk invoved by using them.
Just saying.

Everybody who has ridden on flats has had a moment on them too. Learning any new skill is likely to result in making a mistake.

 

[tommaguzzi]

How can you have a clippie moment i.e. you can't get your feet off the pedals on flats?

 

[tommaguzzi]

Just read up thread even posters on here admit falling off with them

 

[Profpointy]

How can you have a clippie moment i.e. you can't get your feet off the pedals on flats?

yebbut, slipping chain or sturmey archer gears resulting in slamming your bollocks on the the cross bar; or grunting up a hill start - feet slip - nasty grazed shin; or (foolishly) unclipping to rude down a boulder strewn gully thinking it would be safer - wrong - feet flying off pedals and almost lost control.

But apart from that, what have clip in pedals ever done for us?

 

[PhilDawson8270]

How can you have a clippie moment i.e. you can't get your feet off the pedals on flats?

I didn't say a "clippie moment". I said "moment".

Everybody at some point has had a foot slip off a flat pedal. It doesn't make flats "dangerous"

 

[screenman]

Just read up thread even posters on here admit falling off with them

Not all of them have said they fell off.

Sorry but if anybody cannot handle clipless pedals then I sure as hell hope they do not drive a car.

 

[GuyBoden]

Spent two weeks using clipless SPD, I've found that I prefer them to toe clips, so I got an inexpensive M520 pair for my other road bike.

Some good info on SPD pedals here:
http://forum.cyclinguk.org/viewtopic.php?t=66078

These:

 

[simongt]

All my bikes have M515s, except my street bike and Brommie which have flats; the Brommie for obvious reasons. The reason for flats on those two bike is simply the variety of footwear I use when pedalling both bikes. I've slipped off flats many a time, usually when it's wet, but to date, yet to be 'stuck' with problematic consequences with the M515s. Maybe I'm just fortunate - !

 

[DaggersJeff]

Until last September I had used Look Reds & Blacks for over 15 years. Only fell off the first time I fitted them. However, had numerous bambi moments with the shoe plates!!! Then I bought a winter road bike, fitted M520's & and recessed Specialised MTB shoes.
Happy as a pig in shoot with them...and no more Strictly On Ice impressions!!

Loathe to get the summer bike out now!!

 

[mjr]

yebbut, slipping chain or sturmey archer gears resulting in slamming your bollocks on the the cross bar;

Firstly, sturmey archer gears only slipped if you botched the cable adjustment or deliberately held the shifter in neutral. Secondly, recent SA hubs have no neutral because of people like you. Finally, slipping chain? How bad is your maintenance?

or grunting up a hill start - feet slip - nasty grazed shin;

Can't graze your shin on a piece of rubber.

or (foolishly) unclipping to rude down a boulder strewn gully thinking it would be safer - wrong - feet flying off pedals and almost lost control.

Oh I see - you're writing about trying to use nasty sharp clip pedals as if they're flats. Try some real flats before commenting again.

Sorry but if anybody cannot handle clipless pedals then I sure as hell hope they do not drive a car.

I wouldn't say "cannot handle" but why do some people love to complicate cycling? Why would you want it to be more like driving? And if you did, why not get a velomobile?

 

[simongt]

Can't graze your shin on a piece of rubber.[/QUO
THAT depends on the rubber. Some can be easily hard enough to whip the skin off an ankle or the front of your leg in a bad moment.