Originally Posted by spinconn

" If you already own clipless shoes, any particular reason as to why are you no longer riding clipless?"

Right on Red. When I moved to this town, I had miles of roads with great scenery and light, relatively responsible traffic. Then waves of fugitives from the Northeast arrived in short order and the traffic quickly became congested, aggressive, rude and downright ugly. I switched to mostly MUP riding which involved many and frequent crossings of intersections. Despite being very defensive and alert and following all of the lights and the rules I had 3 very close collisions with vehicles, all of which involved immediate lay downs. The first of these injured both achilles tendons, and that made unclipping very uncertain if required quickly. All 3 were the same scenario, 3 lanes going straight and another lane for cars turning right, even on red. I learned quicky to make sure no cars were in the turning lane before crossing the intersection but a car in the 3rd lane, supposedly going straight, would suddenly pull out, gun it, and turn right, right into me. Lay downs have not occurred since, but if they do I feel safer with flat pedals.