I love clips and straps. I love the way they cut off the circulation in my feet. I adore the way you have to remember to loosen them when you come back into town and hit that first stop sign or traffic light that you simply have to stop at. I delight in falling over when I have forgotten to loosen them at that stop sign or traffic light and entertaining the hoi polloi. I go all a-dither over the *** shoe laces that inevitably came with them (I replaced them with regular white athletic shoe laces - may not have been proper Euro-styling, but they worked a lot better and lasted a lot longer). I went ga-ga over trying to nail on cleats and watching the wimpy little "nails" bend as the hit the steel shank in the shoe. (A nearby lbs solved that problem by riveting the cleats into place - worked great.)


If you have read this far, you understand why I have SPDs on everything I own (all road bikes) with MTB shoes so I can walk without looking like a duck or slipping and my butt in a store. I'd only be angry if my click-shifting disappeared. I'd be homicidal if clipless pedals and shoes disappeared.