^oZ

No, and it's been years

unterhausen

I've gotten really close with my speedplays, but haven't yet. They seem to be really hard to get out of if you really want to get out of them. If you don't think about it, no problem.

AngryScientist 

i feel the exact same way, the more you "panic" the worse speedplays are, make a smooth unclip, no problem.

Carbon Unit

These must be Zeros because the Speedplay Light Action pedals are very easy to unclip. I can hold a shoe in my hand and clip it in and out of the pedal easily. The Zeros have a much stiffer spring than the Light Actions.

carlfreddy

Once, in the first 6 months of serious riding.

That was 3 years ago.

Stallionforce

I started out with "Wellgo" pedals, so, yeah, I had my share of side-topples.

Ames

Have fallen with clips and straps and clipless and more than once. Anyone who says they have not are lying or not ridden very much. An old timer said three times is the average when you go clipless.

When you get old and gray like me the gray hair is hollow and allows your memory and sense to leak out so we have an excuse.

charmed

After having my fibula broken my orthopedic doctor finally cleared me for road riding as long as "I didn't clip in." Huh, it hadn't occurred to me my leg might be strong enough to ride, but not strong enough to unclip. Smart doctor. So then I was talking to a friend down the street with a different orthopedic doctor that cleared him to bike. Didn't mention the unclipping aspect. Sure enough he gets on the bike, starts riding, thinks of stopping, tries to unclip, and realizes he doesn't have the strength in that ankle to do so. Tries unlipping-owe, owe, owe. Realizes he's just going to have to aim for lawn and figure it out later.

A couple of weeks of PT and I was much better, ready to clip and unclip. I haven't seen my friend on a bike lately, but I bet he's better too.

Dantebfd

While waiting for a light to change I unclipped right but, for some reason, leaned left.

kbtommy

I'd always wondered about those, whether they were any good. Anyway, I've fallen over a couple times on the road... on my mountain bike, it happens a lot more frequently. A LOT more. Rarely hurt anything more than my pride, and occasionally my shins.

fatdad

My club sponsors Climb-to-the-Clouds, a century in mid July in Massachusetts. When the weather cooperates, it draws a few hundred cyclists, maybe 150 to the century start as it has another start location for those doing the metric. I had just purchased a new road bike, it was it's maiden voyage (I know, real smart to take a new bike on a century ride), out of the parking lot with a police escort to cross a very busy highway.

The LBS had set the pedal release tension to 11 on a scale of 0-10...we get to the highway, big group of cyclists waiting to cross as the police held us up temporarily...I prepare to clip out...BOOM, down on my shoulder and hip, ding up my new handlebar tape not to mention the offending pedal itself...

All my cycling buds are laughing, people in the cars that saw it are laughing...the two cops try not to laugh...I call out to them, "go ahead, everyone else is".

It was then I realized I should join BF and revel in it's daily humiliations...

cra0513

Coming home, I turned a corner, ran over something that instantly flattened my front tire, I slowed quickly to a stop tried to unclip my left but fell over to the left at the same time onto the road. Not a busy road, more of a culdisac or whatever it's called.

It happens. Rather fall over gently than drop at 25+mph.

potatoesandbeer

yup ... ended up on my back with my bike above me still in riding position. It's a lot easier to peddle like that.

BarracksSi

Ames

But how may watts were you putting out?

dje31

Fixed.

JohnDThompson 

Sometimes, that was the only way to get out of these bad boys:

con

I was leaving my daughters house on my towney bike, it has old SPD pedals. Her small dog gets out of the back yard and starts to run ahead of me on a street with car traffic. Knowing just what a skilled cyclist I am I figured I can chase down that little terror and just lean over and reach down almost to the ground and grab the beast’s collar. All went well, until the second when I grabbed the collar, at that point the evil thing stopped dead in her tracks. I could not risk letting go and her getting hit by a car and I could not un-cleat leaned all the way over and down I went…I saved the d*mn dog.

Enthusiast

I have 3 sets of spd pedals and each takes a different amount of force to unclip. The crazy thing is that the spring tension is the highest on the easiest one...cleat wear is real! I've only failed to unclip in time on the middle-difficulty set of pedals. They are on my bike polo bike right now and sometimes falls happen too quickly to unclip.

RichinPeoria

Put you bike on rollers next to pole or something you can grab on to and practice riding, clipping in, clipping out and repeat until you feel comfortable. It's also a good way to fuss with your cleats until you get them where you want them.

Hermes

It is inevitable. Clipless pedals are much better than the older cleats that slotted into pedals with toe straps. You had to release the strap to get your foot out. I fell a few times with those.

Reynolds 

2 or 3 times, long ago...

JTGraphics

Not yet but close a few times! I will never say never but the speedplays have always released in time so far.

APKjuniorFL

I sure have.
I had to slam on brakes at a crossing and couldn't clip out quite in time (SPD) and the bike started to topple...when I finally disengaged, my leg ended up sliding partially down a curbside storm drain.

Bluetick

When I first started I fell in my garage twice after coming in from a ride. I unclipped like a champ the whole ride then for some reason just go brain dead when I pulled in the garage. My wife on the other hand fell a bunch of times. I thought we were going to have to go back to platforms for her. The last time she fell we had gone thru the neighborhood to pull out on a road that leads to our loop. There is a stop sign and always cars coming. So we always have to unclip and stop and wait for a opening. Anyway, as we were pulling up to the stop sign I unclipped and heard this behind me. " I can't I can't I can't" crash boom bang. What she was trying to get out was " I can't unclip" I have never laughed so hard in my life. Yea she was OK, just a couple of gravel cuts and scared up her brake lever a little. Since then she unclips like a pro.