I've been bike-commuting basically full time (90+ percent?) for going on 6 years. The first couple years I clipped in with SPDs. It was fine, whatever. But when my shoes wore out (the lining, not the soles), I was faced with the herculean (to me) task of shopping for new bike shoes. I have wide feet, my old shoes never really fit (I just bought them probably 2 sizes too long so they'd be wide enough), and I was looking at spending probably $150 for properly fit shoes, and driving all over town to find a bike shop well-stocked enough to have shoes I could try on, or mail-ordering and probably returning.

So I said F it, bought pinned platform pedals instead, and wear sneakers. It's still fine, whatever. I still have dedicated cycling shoes, but they cost me $3 at salvation army. By now, every few months I have to re-shoe-goo flapping sole pieces that get torn up by the pins. I don't carry extra shoes to work, I keep 'work' shoes (nicer sneakers) in a locker, if I didn't have a locker I could keep them in my cube. (Same with jeans). If I walk around a store, I never click.

I still consider myself anti-clipless in the following sense; there are people who race bikes, and have money, for them the marginal benefit is so worthwhile, and the value of the money so relatively small, that it makes sense for them to buy clipless cycling shoes. Fine. (be that way)

But there are hordes of cyclists for whom the benefits are too marginal, and/or the cost too high, to justify clipless shoes/pedals (and spandex, and carbon, and...), but they have been conned by marketing (and peer pressure from similarly-conned people around here) into buying these unnecessary products; which is a waste of their money, and also frivolous consumption of resources (materials, labor, energy, shipping).

I don't like it. I'm no green enviro-nazi, I just don't like waste.