"Alan Braggins" wrote in message
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In article , Sniper8052 wrote:
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 21:53:35 GMT, druidh wrote:
Keith Midgley wrote:
I had been considering switching from platform pedals to SPDs for
sometime
but was put off by all the postings about the seemingly compulsory
"falling off".

I finally took the plunge on Wednesday and tonight when leaving work I
fell off - am I now exempt for life, or can I expect further
embarrassment
in the future?

Keith failing to unclip in time :-(

Reckon on another two falls. Best get them over and done with. . .

Is this like capsizing a dingy?

Only in the very loose sense that you can capsize a dinghy by failing
to uncleat something when you ought to, I think.

I've struggled to unclip SPDs in time a few times (and one day I'll get
around to swapping those pedals with ones my other bike to see if it
makes any difference), but always managed it so far (though my usual
commute I use work shoes on the platform sie of the pedal, or my folder
which has plain (but folding) platform pedals.

A friend of mine did once see a motorcyclist fall over at a traffic light.
My friend helped him up, and the motorcyclist explained "I've had a
sidecar
for 20 years, and forgot I didn't have it today".

Completely unrelated but true story...

I used to be in a job that entailed lots of early morning motorway driving.
One morning we came across a Reliant Robin on the hard shoulder. It was on
it's side and had suffered a hefty bit of damage. The engine was still
running so we pulled over to investigate and found the driver, an old boy,
still inside.

His only words on getting him out were "Bloody thing keeps doing that"

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