Originally Posted by Bent42

I'd stick with your favorite mtb shoes/pedals. I use Crank Brothers Candy's because they have a little more contact area than the eggbeaters. The first time you have to walk 50 feet across a 6" wide bridge girder at 2:00 am, carrying your loaded rando bike, because the bridge is under construction and there is no obvious way around it, you'll be happy you are not wearing road shoes. Or, you'll go barefoot. I've had to walk "cross country" for a couple of hundred meters for the same reason (bridge out), so barefoot would not have been an option then.