SPDs
I've always steered clear of the pedals that attach you to your bike having occasionally seen people cartwheel through the air with a large metally object attached to their groin or just generally fall over when they stop.

I did the Dunwich Dynamo at the weekend - 120 miles from Hackney to the Suffolk coast overnight, so thought the extra oophm SPDs give would probably be worthwhile so stuck mine on the bike. at about 3 am we stopped, tired, to work out whether to go left or right and managed to clip out with my right foot and lean to the left. Arsecakes. Landed in a grassy verge thing. People laughed, bastards. Felt even more stupid as i'd laughed at someone doing exactly the same thing at the lights the week before.
(Alphabet Soap boshboshboshbosh, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 15:11, 4 replies)

the joy of spuds
I've done that, laugh at a "useless lycra clad loser" and then fallen over in front of a group of teenagers etc... the shame
( zulu eh?, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 15:28, closed)

Epic fail
You want to try breaking down in front of a secondary school. In a Reliant Robin.

Even the teachers' cars are cooler than that.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 15:43, closed)

Probably worse ....
...was me showing the kids in the street how to wheelie, overcooking it slightly and failing to unclip as it came back. My embarrassment was outweighed by the pain ... my kids' however wasn't.
( Ramsay Tupper, Wed 28 Jul 2010, 21:03, closed)

Everybody does it once.......
After I'd done it 4 times, including, memorably, into a ditch filled with stinging nettles, I gave up and went back to my clips and straps. Stupid bloody shoes made me look like Michael Jackson in space anyway.
(Sammyhaswoefullyneglectedyou, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 13:17, closed)