Originally Posted by EjustE

I don't use them for a couple of reasons (or so) :

a. I am lazy to learn how to use them and for my life of me I cannot balance a stopped bike at a stop sign or a red light without taking one foot off the pedal and planting it on the ground
b. I like to wear shoes on a bike, that I can walk on if I need to without dealing with all that cleat stuff. Same argument, I like to pop into a bike on a spare of the moment situation, like driving into a new place and exploring an interesting path in the weekend (and I don't want to deal with hauling different shoes to do that). Yeah, I am a freak: I mount my bike on my car carrier when I go for pointless country drives on sunny weekends, just in case I see something I cannot explore with a car.
c. I even race with platform cages (triathlons). Use running shoes on them and I save a good couple of minutes in transitions