Originally Posted by
TejanoTrackie
For the umteenth time, traditional toe clips and straps were never intended to be used with sneakers. They were intended to be used with classic rigid soled cycling shoes with slotted cleats such as shown in the attached pic. If you wear soft soled shoes like sneakers and want some sort of foot retention, then your best bet are wide soft straps w/o clips, such as the Bikeage ones, combined with some sort of BMX pedal.
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track bikes were never intended to be used on the street. Just because it's not its intended use doesn't mean it shouldn't be done. I'm pretty sure if people had to wear specific shoes with clips and straps, they would just go with clipless shoes/pedals.