>>1144470Have you ever used them? Apparently not.
Try a full-on sprint with your platform pedals and whatever street shoes you wear to ride and tell me how that works for you. If you want Hard Mode, then try it when your shoes and pedals are wet. Even with metal pegs of some kind to help with traction, you're going to have to hold back when you do this, because at 120rpm cadence, standing or even sitting, you can't let your feet come off the pedals for even an *instant* or you're likely to fuck up.
>but I don't ever sprint, LOL, why would anyone other than a racer want to do that?So you never sprint through an intersection because the light turned yellow and you were close?
You never ride with buddies, and sprint for fun against each other, just to see who's faster?
You never push yourself *at all*, just to see what you can do?
If all the above are true then I am sad for you.
Why do you think, back in the day, they invented straps and toe cages? To keep your feet from slipping off the pedals when you're putting in a maximal effort. Because they determined it was a better way. Clipless was the next logical step in the evolution of that.
Oh and by the way you don't have to spend $400 or more for clipless if you don't want to.
Most of what you end up paying for is light weight. You can get MTB style clipless marketed to recreational/commute riders for cheap, and maybe $100 for shoes (less on sale), you can even get street shoes-style that support them, and the aluminum cleats for that style pedal are very cheap (like $10), and they last damned near forever because everything is metal. For a recreational/commute rider a setup like this would last you for *years* before anything wore out. So much for your argument about cost.
All in all you really shouldn't criticize something you apparently have never had any experience with, which is obvious in this case.
