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Originally Posted by plowmanjoe
what's this safety thing some people are mentioning? Are people really putting the right foot down for safety?
If you do a bodge job of unclipping (or getting your foot out of toe clips or put your foot down wrong or etc.), you generally fall away from traffic if you put your right foot down.

That, of course, assumes right side of the road driving.
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