Originally Posted by Wogsterca

My brother in law has clipless on both his bikes and likes them. Personally I think it's 200 bucks I could find other uses for, and for 99.99% of the riders out there, the only difference between clips and clipless is the cost, both do the same thing, hold your feet in the proper position, and reduce the chances of having a foot come off the pedal when it's needed to be there the most. So we replace a perfectly good 50 year old technology, with a fairly new technology, for no real benefit, at a high cost, simply because it's been around for a while.

I think too much of modern cycling is racing oriented, including the crazy ideas of trying to see how many gears we can squeeze onto a cassette, and how few spokes, on a wheel. It's been this way, for a long time, and maybe for weight wienies with more money then brains, it works. Clipless pedals are one of these racing technologies. Hey on a race where the guy who is .04 seconds behind the winner is in 4th place, then quick entry, and no adjusting anything during the event, is a big deal. The rest of us, really do not need them.