Subject: Re: Advice for you all:
I ride clip-in pedals, but my crash would have happened the same way even if I had been using platform pedals. The fall was that fast. 32ft/sec^2 won.

I overcame my fear of cleats in 1990, and have ridden with them ever since. My original fear of them was based on my worry that I couldn’t unclip them from the pedal fast enough to avoid an “Artie”.

That fear proved to be an irrational one.

Wouldn’t ride without them now.