Originally Posted by
neil
I often wonder - I see a lot of people comparing clipless to platforms, but I'm wondering what people who've gone from toe-clips to clipless feel about it. I've always used toe-clips, and they seem to offer the same benefits that the proponents of clipless mention. Also, I think that having to bring an extra pair of shoes everywhere I go would be a pain in the ass. So has anyone done that switch and thinks the benefits are worth it?
Most people don't use the right shoes and don't cinch the toe clip straps down tight enough to see the same degree of advantage that clipless gives you. However, I'm the wrong person to ask because I never liked toe clips and clipless addresses my main pet peeves about them.
Toe clips have the advantage in that you can often use whatever shoe you'd wear anyway but some shoes don't work very well and you can forget about sandals. There are SPD compatible sandals and there are combination SPD/platform pedals that allow you to wear whatever shoe you like.