Originally Posted by Zapcod
ok I'll bite...Platform pedals have no mechanism for holding your feet to the pedal. If you put some kind of strap and toe cage assembly on platform pedals, it's called (I think
) toe clips. Clipless pedals, are pedals with much smaller platforms, but with a mechanism that allows your shoe to attach to the pedal that is compatible with the pedal, hence "clipless".
Why do we park on driveways and drive on parkways? Jumbo shrimp?
That's pretty much it. If you don't have clipless pedals, you've got just platforms or toe clips(or no pedals at all). It is kinda weird saying, "I can't get clipped in to my clipless pedals." I'm guessing toe clips were around long before clipless pedals and that's how they came to be known as
clipless or pedals
without toe clips. Kinda like cordless phones or paperless bills.