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Clips or flats for Downhill racing?
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kurt-heering
(Jul 17, 2013 at 22:19)
I wanna try clips I'm just terrified of crashing with them
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Think of it this way, how often are you crashing compared to how often you are going over a heavily technical section, yes if you crash with clips you crash hard but if you use them you're probably less likely to crash because you have that slight extra control.
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ive recently put spd's on my dh bike after the same worry about how it is unclipping as i thought it would hard to unclip when falling but your foot just does the movemet to unclip automatically i have not had a problem with them yet 
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I was scared of that too, but i just thought, when i crash, i crash, no matter what type of pedals i use... Its basically easier then you'd expect it... Biggest problem i've had was when i was trying to look cool in front of the lift and then fell sideways because i was too dumb to unclip hah
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What rumblefish says, it depends on the course. If it's so rutted and rocky that you struggle to stay on the pedals and put any power down then its clips all the way. On the other hand if it's all off camber and big loamy berms with plenty of chances to lose traction sideways then it's flats.
That said, I'm happy standing on the cages on my clipless pedals through most twisty bermy crap.
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With downhill, a sport where the idea is to get to the bottom of the hill faster than everyone else and tricks slow you down, there's no point in not having clips. But sometimes it depends on the course.
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Yeah i thought that, i ride fort william and that is a course that you would benefit heavily from riding clips on, im always having my feet thrown off the pedals, although brook macdonald proved they arent completely neccesary