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I had SPD's on my Mountain Bike. Just getting back into it commuting after a nasty wreck. The commuter has clipped with cheap plastic toe clips and nylon straps. They are driving me nuts. The plastic toe clip bends in the wind and the nylon just doesn't want to stay open.

I am leaning towards pulling them off and replacing with M520's at $50 vs. getting a good pair of "MKS Touring Lites" plus toe clips and straps = + $70.00.

I don't see any benefit in performance for me, but I do see that I am going to bust my tail end trying to slip the foot into a flaky toe clip at intersections and possibly wobbling around. Or pedaling on the bottom side of the pedal with the toe clips doing the scrape, scrape, scrape thing until across the intersection.

Convenience? If I was going to be making short runs on the bike I would go for the platform. I'm not, close to home I would have to major lock up the bike or it would be gone in no time.

Any thoughts on safety and speed of clipping in vs toe clips or plain platforms. I would vote for the platform w/o toe clips as far as speed and convenience wearing any type shoe. From my mountain bike experience I had good luck with the clipless