Originally Posted by
inCOGneto
Clipless - most efficient pedal stroke and not ugly
Ugly is in the eye of the beholder. But clipless being more efficient? Black (no-float) LOOK cleat vs toeclips, straps and slotted cleats? Tell me how one is more efficient when, with either system, the shoe goes nowhere on the pedal. (The toestraps do offer a direct link to the pedal when lifting instead of introducing flex from the shoe. Note that as pointed out above, track sprinter regularly run toestraps even using clipless.)
Yeah, I suppose you can argue that float is more efficient than no-float. I do not have that choice; not if I want to hang on to my OEM knees. (If float is more efficient, you probably should have pointed that out a a certain multi Tour winner who won the first five or so on LOOK black and didn't go to his sponsors pedals until they made a no-float option.
Ben