Originally Posted by
PaulRivers
Fair enough, but thus my use of the phrase "more likely". You're much more likely to get knee/foot/leg pain from using clipless than not. But "likely" is the important word, it's interesting that two people (also @
winston63) started using clipless and assumably used some sort of bike fitter and the knee pains went away. I'm not trying to say it never happens, but it's the minority of people for whom it works that way. I've heard that happening 1 previous time, but in addition to personal experience, the experience of people I know, I also see a far larger number of "how do I solve x-pain now that I switched to clipless?" threads as well.
There's a huge difference between "occassionally clipless can improve leg pain for some people" and claiming that it typically does.
That's fairly interesting since I would personally assume that clipless and clipped would be almost the same in terms of getting a proper fitting and getting the knee pain to go away, since the real keys I always thought were the appropriate crank arm length, as well as foot positioning over the pedals axle and both are fairly flexible in that sense.. especially if you have a good fitter or know how to fit yourself properly.