Originally Posted by
ltxi
When I bought my newest bike a few months ago my LBS guy, great guy but...,told me no one uses toeclips these days/anymore because they're harder to get out of and increase the danger of falling. Now that there, to me, was just seriously funny.
Assuming one is talking about toeclips without cleats.
I have been thinking about it some. I think the toeclips may actually be faster to extract one's feet from than cleats/clipless.
The reason is that one can usually yank the feet out of the toeclips with a natural down and back motion.
On the other hand, the cleats one must twist the foot up and to the side.
I'm wondering if one would actually get the foot on the ground following an emergency stop (or loss of traction on a hill climb) a couple of critical milliseconds faster using toeclips.
Of course.... putting the cleats in is faster and easier.