Originally Posted by
papaki72
And here I am with a pair of Shimano R550 pedals. First tryout was a nightmare. I fell quite a few times trying to stop. Should I lower the saddle so that I can touch the road with my toe without getting off the saddle? Now I am scared of traffic lights and roads with heavy traffic.
--- Next day edit ---
Being cool always seems to work out things better than expected. The trick to learning these petals is to keep a cool mind. No panic, slow and steady starting and stopping and all is good. Tried again today and it worked out nicely. Carefully, keeping the distances in light traffic and it worked wonders.
great! I like to equate clipless pedals to driving a manual shift car. meaning plan ahead. when you see a stop coming up unclip one foot & let it dangle, then when you stop, be sure to lean to the unclipped foot side to put THAT foot down. kinda like rolling to a stop in neutral. learned that after following another rider & watched what he did
another thing I do, is set the release so that even if I forget to unclip, if I try to take a foot off a pedal, it comes off easily, w/o any conscious effort. now that I'm used to them, I guess I can tighten that up a bit ...?