Originally Posted by LóFarkas
Edit: I'm pretty sure that the frame aroud the candies will not touch your shoes, or only just. Don't think it will add any support. Otherwise, how the hell do you clip in/out? That silly thing is designed to allow you to ride in street shoes if you must, but I hear it's pretty much useless at that as well. As to the quattro, I have reservations about that, too. Anyone used them?
i had quatros on the geared bike. you can only use road shoes with them. i wish crank bros. would modify this, but the width of the spindle part that connects to the cranks is overly fat and hits the sole of non-road shoes, making them difficult to impossible to click in. sure, i could chop up the soles of non-road shoes to make them fit the quatros, but doing that would ruin their walkability.
the deal breaker is that the quatro's smaller q-factor doesn't feel natural to me. and because i could only use road-specific shoes, it made me less inclined to use the bike for commuting, errands, seeing friends, etc.
but to answer the o.p.'s original question, i've yet to experience hot spots w/ regular eggbeaters (seems shoe choice has more to do with it) and i find them more comfy and functional (though at a noticeable weight cost to the quatros).