Originally Posted by Walpurgisnacht

It's as if the entire cycling world has designed performance pedals around clip-in clipless pedals, and you're either using them or you're using those black plastic starter pedals. Not that there's anything wrong with those black plastic pedals, of course. If they hold your shoe in place and move the crank arms as you expect then they're getting the job done. But I still feel that drive to upgrade beyond stock and starter components, and so I find myself looking up other pedal options instead of putting the black plastic pedals back on my bicycle...