Originally Posted by
cyccommute
First, at least in my experience, the chances of anything going wrong with SPD pedals is slim to none. If you use double sided mountain bike pedals, the chances of both sides failing is infinitesimal. And if you use mountain bike shoes, you can hike in them for miles and miles.
I am with you on this one, SPD's are insanely reliable, I have a few sets each with thousands of miles on them and have only seen 1 set fail to where you could not clip in on one side but the other side still worked fine. I used to run egg beaters but I also get sick of the bearing rebuilds, it would happen probably once a season, possibly more on the mountain bike.
Personally I run spd's and just use a shoe commuter style SPD shoe, sometimes I will even use it on my commute in and wear them all day and it never bothers me even though I spend the entire day on my feet.
This is similar to what I use.
