I rode my new to me road bike for the first time yesterday, I've never ridden a road bike before, well my boss picked it up for me and used it in a tri before it got back to me and he put his clipless shimano pedals on it, and hadnt gotten around to taking them off. I ran and bought the little things for the bottom of my shoes and rode clipless immediately and had no problems, went on about a 10 mile ride and had to stop a few times and it was a lot easier than I thought it would be, needless to say I'm just gonna buy his pedals from him!