Originally Posted by kyselad

Not to be argumentative or insensitive, but I still don't see how this makes clips any better. The vast majority of my spills have been in clips even though my miles are about equally mixed between clips and clipless. Fortunately, my worst spill only involved some lingering wrist pain that resolved in about a year -- sorry to hear yours sounds to have been a lot worse. But mine was indeed a slow-motion fall in clips that I'm fairly confident I could have saved on my atacs.

YMMV.