Dam..I gotta agree, no doubt everyone is free to have an opinion and I claim no particular expertise but the negatives expressed in 'antiaverages' post bear no resemblance to my experience using these suckers to pedal my bike...none.

Diagonal straps or no, every stroke up, thru, over and down simply gives me no sense that "no..not as 'efficient' as it could be". Once I get my feet in, from my perspective during my employment of these pedals I'm putting out the power across the entire rotation, works for me. Keeps me connected yet when I decide or circumstances dictate that I slip out NOW, I slide out nice and easy. I tried this route after a few close calls with my crank bros mallets. Great pedals, but for me in a congested MUP with folks doing strange and often dangerous-idiotic things, forcing you to stop on a dime, slow to a crawl, duck, dip and dive a few times I've needed to immediately diengage from the pedal and I almost got caught in the typical 'didnt unclip and going over' scenario. No fault of the pedals but for me I needed a truly 'brainless' solution, I've honestly only been using them for about a week and beside the small challenge of mounting my foot in once in motion they have been great. Frankly I have little to no complaints about them.

Overpriced? Maybe I dunno..seems to me that everything cost more than it's worth. I have Azonic Pookies on my mtb, I think they are superb but cost 'a grip', so did the Mallets, my MKS Lambda's on a hybrid cost about the same as the "high performamce" powergrips. Frankly I think it's all overpriced but the cost is the cost and my powergrips were on the milder side when compared to my other/prior pedals.

I'll admit to liking what I'm hearing about the Holdfasts and if I find negatives enough about my current setup to go and look for a better solution in greener pastures I'll surely give them a go, but so far so good..yet admittedly early days thus far.