Originally Posted by CraigB

My wife refuses to consider clipless, partly out of fear, partly out of frugality. She's kept the original pedals, clips and straps that came on her 20-year-old Panasonic, and uses plain old athletic shoes. The problem she's having, though, is finding athletic shoes with smooth enough soles that the back edge of the pedal cage doesn't accidentally "engage" where she dislikes it. They all have aggressively ridged or lugged soles that interact with the pedal in a way she doesn't like.