Originally Posted by
RatedZ
Maybe I'm gonna be the odd man out, but there's no way I'd ever use anything that stuck my feet to pedals on a bicycle. Second nature or not, the moment it takes to unclip could be the difference between a life and death situation (stopping for a car...) or breaking an arm.
I guess I'm just of old-school "BMX philosophy;" get some "bear-traps" and hope your shins don't make contact with them.
I have the same aversion to being attached to my bike. That said, competent clipless pedal riders can clip out as fast as we can get our feet off of our shin killers. With practice and use unclipping becomes second nature, and you don't even have to think about it, anymore. Or, so I've been told by BMXers who run clipless.