>>1326418>I don't use my pretty shoes for cage cyclingSo wear normal clipless sneakers then. You know there are other options besides death trap toe cages with Berluti wholecuts, and completely rigid full carbon horse hooves with 20nm sprinter pedals, right?
>They tie your shoe to the pedalHardly. It's very easy to slip out unless you tighten them to the point where they're basically a death trap
>to allow pulling up the pedals for more forceBarely any force considering you're smashing the uppers of your shoes against this flimsy sharp strip of metal. Actual clipless pedals allow you to apply force in any reasonable direction for pedaling, while unclipping easily using a simple instantaneous non-pedaling motion
>uhm.. noUhm yes
>they're not the choice for serious race riding and practicing They're literally not the choice for anything. They take the worst elements of foot retention and no foot retention, discard any of the benefits, and combine to form an abomination that should not be used by anyone under any circumstances other than masochistic cosplay l'eroica LARPs
