Carbonfiberboy, I'm sorry, but you're just wrong. While I don't doubt that pulling on the upstroke can help at times, all the science points to the fact that in practice, nobody does this during normal riding. Normal people still apply downward pressure on the upstroke and the pros are good enough that they can basically keep their foot out of the way during the upstroke. Maybe you've discovered some crazy upstroke nonsense, but I didn't see you in the last Tour, so I'm just going to assume that what will make the pros go real fast will probably make me go pretty fast too.

Saying you know what's going on with your legs better than an instrument designed specifically to tell you what's going on with your legs is just as useful as saying you know you were riding your bike at least 88mph on your last ride because you can just feel what your legs are doing, man.
I mean, I know the Sun orbits the Earth because, duh, I see it go up over there, it goes down over there.... How difficult is all this astrophysics stuff anyway?

In any case, I'm with Grant Petersen. For touring and 95% of all other bike related activities, platforms are good.
If you're riding fixed, racing or just like having your feet strapped down (as you clearly do—although you're probably not transferring much power to your tires if you're lifting the rear wheel from your massive upstrokes) clips or clipless work.