Originally Posted by
repechage
lacking retention will undercut your performance and reduce muscle use by 25-35%
A fact someone interested in going fast without clips/straps would not care about, and not really factual anyway.
The only time a power increase of 25% or more is realized is in very short sprints by very serious cyclists. At any long distance there is not enough difference in efficiency between having or not having retention for an amateur to worry about, it is less than ten percent for the serious, and for amateurs probably less than five percent.