After my experience in Italy, I'm not sure I really need to feel "attached" for daily transportation use, and the upsides of being able to wear whatever footwear I choose instead of being limited to spud shoes plus the ease of getting rolling from a stop with naked doublesided pedals outweigh the downsides. Plus spuds would just look completely wrong on my Bartali :^) The Sylvans look vintage and are cheap besides so if it turns out I can't abide them I'm only out small change.
Kurt Sperry Bellingham WA USA
On 1/7/07, Edward Albert <Edward.H.Albert@hofstra.edu> wrote:
>
> One alternative, if the problem is you want to be attached but also want
> to walk around for errands, etc. is what a lot of the tour guides use
> and recommend for bike tours --- so you can ride and than walk around
> doing the tourist thing --and that is to use mountain bike shoes with
> clipless pedals like Shimano SPD's or similar where the bottom of the
> shoe is flat with an indent for the cleat. I am sure cross racers use
> something similar. That way you can have your cake and walk on it too.
> I hope I am not repeating something that has already been said.
> Edward Albert
> Chappaqua, NY, USA