Originally Posted by
Squeezebox
It's not marketing hype it's real. Sounds like many of the "clipless is unnecessary" folks have not ridden clipless.
The last time I forgot my cycling shoes and rode about 100km in crocs it tore up my legs so bad I could not ride a bicycle for a month, could hardly walk for 2 days. When I go to the grocery in tennis shoes I feel the stress of mis-aligned ankles and knees. Not so with my cycling shoes. I would never ride on flats more than a few miles for fear of significant injury.
Geez it takes about 30 seconds to change shoes , Max. The 1
pr of shoes argument just does not hold water compared to your safety.
That's my experience.
You rode a metric century in crocs on SPD(or similar) pedals and use that as reason as evidence to your position? Thats par for the course with you.
And how far is the grocery store from you that you have misaligned knees and ankles from simply pedaling in running shoes? If anything, running shoes should allow you to NOT have misaligned knees and ankles due to your leg and foot being allowed to rest on the pedal in their natural positions. One of the common causes of knee pain is poorly set SPDs that force the leg into a locked position that is too far from natural.
Man I love your posts. Gold. Pure gold.