Originally Posted by
91MF
ah points taken. never really thought of it like that.
when i went clipless[truthfully i've never ridden any style but atac] i wanted a MTB style full sole shoe because i no longer live downtown and when heading into the city on my bike i wanted something i could walk around in once i locked up. carrying extra shoes[even vans slip-ons] in the knapsack 100km round trip was something i was trying to avoid. almost all my friends who ride clipless use atac as well so it just seemed logical.
if you dont mind, what would you say is the biggest downfall of atac?
i'll also mention i run my cleats L<-->R switched for the more aggressive required disengagement angle and i wear sidi bullet2s which were a steal online at the time.
My last set of MTB pedals were ATAC. I had two bikes at the time a track bike with Shimano SPD-SL Ultegra and a CX bike with TIME ATACs on it. I bought the cross bike on a good deal with intentions of learning to race CX. I never did. So, after weeks/months of riding the track bike on the track, I decided to take the CX bike for a spin around town.
"OH MY GOD", I thought to my self. The cleat attachment was tiny compared to the road pedals. The float felt springy, not free. You can't adjust the angle that the cleat points (you can with road cleats). This determines which way your foot points. Then the platform of the pedal felt tiny.
The pedal under my foot felt like it was shaped like
[] in the middle of the foot with the ATACs. With SPD-SLs it feels like
[|||] with the platform extending almost the width of my foot. (sorry for the ascii graphics).