Good point about the clips hanging down, I hadn't thought about that. I mostly want this bike to be more of a utility bike than my current ride, so I was thinking it would be nice to put toe-clips on it so I could ride it without having to put on my bike shoes. (I could wear waterproof boots on rainy days, or warmer shoes on cold days, etc.) Then I thought it would be nice if I still had the option of wearing the SPD-SLs if I wanted, so I started looking to see if anyone made such a pedal. When I found that Shimano made something similar for SPDs I figured it might exist for SPD-SLs. But, I think you're right that the toe-clips hanging down would potentially cause problems, so I suppose maybe I should just scrap that idea and put toe-clip pedals on it.