Originally Posted by Sedgemop

Recently rode an organized century on my Merckx. Got a lot of compliments on the bike throughout the ride. Even more though, I got comments on my using flat pedals. Almost everyone was using clipless pedals and they thought it was "wild", "crazy", "old school" that I was using flat pedals. Only obvious performance difference I could detect is I'd have to wait for them to clip in after every red light.