Originally Posted by
caloso
Only if you exclude sprinting, climbing short steep hills, or bouncing over rough pavement. In my experience, pulling your foot off in those situations is pretty inefficient.
I do admit even though I enjoy barefoot cycling there aren't hardly any hills around here, and I typically stay to the smooth paved rail trails, and don't do a lot of hard sprinting, so in my situation I'm not really missing them. But I can see in some situations where they would be of benefit.