Originally Posted by
Smokehouse
Yes, they can be seriously dangerous is you don't know what you're doing and don't respect them.
With that said...I believe the benifits FAR outweigh the dangers but to act like riding a bike locked to the pedals is just as safe as flats is just not true.
They're safer. There's a reason mountain bikers prefer clipless to platforms. Slipping of the pedals at the wrong moment is far more dangerous than any imagined danger of clipless.