Originally Posted by Jim from Boston

Wow Miss Kenton, I'm surprised any of your acquaintances would not know better than to apply peer pressure to you, without being mercilessly rejoined. I'm sorry to have deflected your joyful post so off topic. FWIW I used toeclips for decades and I too avoided clipless until about five years ago and then took the plunge a few days before a century ride. Despite a few topples in the first year, I have never looked back. I have still kept toeclips on my beater mountain bike for icy days, when even with studded tires the chances of slipping are greater. However now when disengaging from the mountain bike, I start to use the rotating motion as if I was clipless, it's become so habitual.

The sound of a group of cyclists all clicking along as they walk and then clippping in almost in unison is to me like, "Gentlemen [sic], start your engines." (Now that could be unspoken peer pressure I guess. .)