Originally Posted by
bobwysiwyg
Having retired from a profession where detail was king, I'd pedantically think they should be cleat pedals.
But thanks for explaining.
To add what others have already said. If you want to make sense of it without getting Freud involved....
The bike culture assumes there is always some type of foot retention device. There are clips which are toe clips or straps and later came a cleat style that did not use clips or straps. There is no third option of neither
Maybe the third option is simply just implied as clipless AND cleatless.