This is not about whether you should wear a jacket or not, or wear armor or not.

Yesterday I got a little lazy. I took the spyder when I went hiking. That's not the lazy part. I wore my low cut hiking shoes with a speed lace loop, and what appear to be rubber cleats; that's the lazy part. Everything went fine for about 10 miles, and then I noticed with upshifting (2008 GS SM5) my foot not moving freely to get into a down shift movement. Then it happened, as I was speeding up and upshifting, a car pulled out from a side street, and I immediately tried to downshift but couldn't move my left foot; so, I hit the brake. I then freed my left foot, and pulled into a parking lot. With a speed lace loop, you typically have excess lace, and I tuck it in close to the bottom lace. What was happening with each upshift, the excess lace was moving, and ended up over one of the cleats, and there was enough space for the shifter to get stuck under the lace. Lesson learned.