Originally Posted by makeitso5005

Pretty much you just need to ask yourself with the primary and secondary purpose is of your riding. If it involves utilitarian uses (errands, transportation to where you'll stay in your shoes for a while, basically anything where you'd rely on the shoes as waking shoes) or also own a mountain bike SPD's or crank brother egg beaters are the way to go. However, if your uses involve the road bike being purely recreational where you're going to ride loops around meetup locations for more than 2 hours then a road specific platform likely is the better choice. However, considering your budget ($125) you're likely going to fairly limited in the road selection you have access to without buying used.

With that being said I've done everything from grocery shopping to century rides in SPD's. There's nothing wrong with the SPD system except that it lacks the wider platform of a road specific system and less adjustment available for the cleat and usually the shoes and heavier. If you don't get hotspots in your feet and aren't super sensitive to cleat adjustment you could be very happy with SPD's. I've never thought I needed to change the bike to a road pedal system even though I've had those in the past.