looking at picking up a pair of campus pedals clipless one side and flat on the other. will also consider straight clipless with a platform around the binding. i am looking at this wellgo model. https://www.pricepoint.com/detail/142...10--Pedals.htm they work with shimano spd cleats. how well do these type of pedals work? do you end up trying to clip into the platform side at a stop light? share your experiences, thanks

I use this type of pedal on my utilyt/commuter (i have the performance campus ) they work great for me. I can jump and go when I need too or put spd shoes on for longer rides. They are very easy to clip into, but you can easily pedal if a) you don't quite cliip or b) you have the wrong side.

Have them on two bikes. Little different model but it is nice to be able to just hop on for short runs to the store without needing the cleats.

Heh! I was using SPD pedals exclusively for 18 months then, I had to put platform pedals on due to a human induced error. I was attempting to unclip from the platform pedals every time. It had become so habitual that I couldn't stop myself. My second pair of SPD sandals from Pricepoint are now geting long in the tooth or thin in sole, take your pick. On really cold days here, in South Florida, I am forced to put on socks.

I have gone the path of choosing footgear purchases that fit the bike. If, I need to be more presentable, after a bike hike, I just take the dress shoes out of the backpack or pannier and change.

There is a reason and market for your choice of pedals. That is the joy of choices.

i rode on clipless exclusively for a few months then put on platforms. i too found myself twisting my heel out on the platforms. i think i will pick up these pedals to try out.

The campus pedal design works well. The cleat sticks up, so that if you have cleated shoes you instantly know if you are on the wrong side, and if in regular shoes the same applies. But that doesn't matter, since you can still pedal through the intersection before flipping it over to get it right. With practice, you won't have to look down. When I first started using them, there was enough resistance to make the pedal not rotate when your foot was not on it. Very convenient, since if you were on the incorrect side you just took your foot off at the bottom of the stroke and the correct side rotated to being up at the top of the stroke. Now the pedal will roate slowly so that the platform only side is down. I have the shimano pedals.

I bought them thinking I'd upgrade the platform pedals I was using and be able to use them when I went clipless. I never did go clipless, and have hated the way the clipless side always ends up facing up. It's very annoying in traffic when you're wanting to take off without the extra time and distraction of flipping the pedal over while dealing with crosstraffic.

I have a pair of Shimano M324s on my cruiser. So far so good; I only have a couple hundred miles on them at most though.

I have Shimano A530s which are also clipless (SPD) on one side and platform on the other. They look more like road pedals than the campus models do.

I've had them since May and if I had to choose all over again, I don't know if I would get them again or not. It is nice to be able to use a regular shoe and that has come in handy on several occasions. However, I don't ride with regular shoes very often and I would say at some point almost every day I end up on the wrong side of the pedal. Like the others have said, it's not a big deal when that happens. It's only a minor annoyance but it is a frequent one.

I have that style of pedal on all my bikes, for the same reasons as above. I can be all ready for a ride, or not, and use the bikes either way. Most of mine are the earlier generation of Shimanos, the M323, but a couple are Nashbar or Performance. I didn't like those less expensive ones when I first put them on, but after a year I'm so used to them that I don't even remember what it was I didn't like. And I twist out from both platform and clip, too. I got overbalanced at a red light one time and frantically twisted my foot as I toppled over. All you have to do is twist and lift your foot a quarter of an inch, but when you're falling all you want to do is put your foot DOWN, and that quarter inch of UP got me. I hit the ground, bounced up and looked for witnesses to my stupidity, and then checked for damage.

I noticed that if you are in to dialing in your fit on your bike, you may notice that the seat needs to raised or lowered slightly when you switch from cleats to regular shoes.

That may depend on the particular pedal, how your cleat is situated on the shoe, and how different the shoes you wear are from each other.

The shoes I wear can very quite a bit in terms of sole thickness, so even if I just had platforms this is a potential problem. In my case though 90% of the time I wear my cycling shoes. I don't ride far enough on any other set of shoes to worry about setting the optimum seat height.

I use the Performance house brand campus pedals on my commuter/ice cream bike. I've never had an issue flipping the pedal to the "right" side in traffic. Either side is good enough to get across the intersection, and it's no big deal to flip it once I'm across, better yet..trackstand. The platform makes it really convenient to just jump on and ride with the kids to get ice cream, library, school, not to mention riding to Greektown for lunch without changing clothes or shoes.

The technique with these is this...

When you're stopped, the pedal will hang down a certain way, such that when you want to ride on the flat side, you put your foot down and back. When you want to ride on the clip-in side, you do the same as people do with toe clips: slide the foot forward into it. Now, it won't always work perfectly, but it will most of the time. If it doesn't, just flip it... no big deal. You can always start pedaling on the wrong side and wait until you're off and clear of an intersection to fiddle with it.

Personally though, while I've had a pair of these for over a decade and have used them a lot (as well as other clipless pedals), I would suggest that for most urban use, you are better off getting a pair of MKS Touring pedals (maybe the Touring Lite model), and using ordinary athletic shoes. These pedals are double-sided. It doesn't matter which side is up. Very convenient for city use if you're not racing. You can be off away from a light before the first car gets going, and well before any other cyclists even get clipped in.

Campus pedals are the way for me to go. I like the idea of being able to wear cycling shoes and flip flops on the same bike.