Originally Posted by
cooker
Unless you're racing, most of the supposed benefits of clipless are imaginary. Yet it's like a religion where people have strong beliefs and will burn you for heresy if you question the dogma.
Or, unless their experience has been different than yours and they WOULD lose some function and/or speed by switching to platforms.
For me personally I have not seen the huge gains that some people have said they've achieved by going clipless. In my case the performance improvements are more situational, but I have found that I do like being clipped in. I feel I have more control of the bike, - like it's more an extension of me rather than something I'm riding on.
That being said, I ride on platforms about 30% of the time. They have their advantages too.