Is there a drill to practice getting out of cleats.
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Gixxerman
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For added impetus, make sure you have a large audience such as in the high streeet or outside a school at leaving time.Just fall, after that you'll never do it again, it worked for me
Your brain can get overloaded if too many things are happening at once. Under normal conditions, you slow down towards the junction, unclip left and ease your foot down.
Or a car does a close pass, you have to avoid a slippery drain cover, a pothole and a workmans cable across the road, then a woman with a pram launches her child into the road. Your brain forgets to tell your foot to unclip. With lots of experience and practice your foot may remember on its own.
One advantage of lose toe clips is that no matter how unbalaced, I could extract my foot during a fall.
For an unclip drill, I would find some soft grass with a slight slope. Tip sideways down the slope and see how easily you can unclip en route to horizontal.
Or a car does a close pass, you have to avoid a slippery drain cover, a pothole and a workmans cable across the road, then a woman with a pram launches her child into the road. Your brain forgets to tell your foot to unclip. With lots of experience and practice your foot may remember on its own.
One advantage of lose toe clips is that no matter how unbalaced, I could extract my foot during a fall.
For an unclip drill, I would find some soft grass with a slight slope. Tip sideways down the slope and see how easily you can unclip en route to horizontal.
matticus
Guru
Must happen - I've had someone suddenly pull out and hit me. I'd have preferred to have time to stop completely instead, but he timed it too well for that ...
matticus
Guru
So would you rather stop or not stop? You seem to want it both ways going by your posts ...
cougie uk
Guru
I'm merely saying that my routine is to click out the pedal before I get to a junction where I'm likely to stop.
Doing too many things at once is probably the OPs downfall. Braking, checking, stopping, unclipping.
You need to unclip before you stop as you then have no time to unclip.
As I said it's worked for me for over 30 years.
I've not got a routine for unclipping when hit by a car.
Doing too many things at once is probably the OPs downfall. Braking, checking, stopping, unclipping.
You need to unclip before you stop as you then have no time to unclip.
As I said it's worked for me for over 30 years.
I've not got a routine for unclipping when hit by a car.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
They pretty much can... I saw a video on YouTube of one that DID!
PS Then the dumb driver blames the driver of the car that she crashed into!
I don't know how he was so calm about it...
matticus
Guru
So back to what you actually wrote earlier:
Quite a simple scenario. Hopefully not very common, of course.
Can't you see that you might need to stop completely?
Quite a simple scenario. Hopefully not very common, of course.
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Scary, eh!
matticus
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I guess you didn't watch yesterday's Giro stage?
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
The rider didn't have a rear-view mirror so it must have been a bit unexpected, and it sure was sudden!
cougie uk
Guru
As I said I can't recall it happening to me.
matticus
Guru
I was a bit disappointed that he didn't unclip before the impact. A "so-called professional" rider, too.The rider didn't have a rear-view mirror so it must have been a bit unexpected, and it sure was sudden!
