Going clipless....

[KnottedYet]

I'm right there with you!

Love my Speedplay Frogs and Specialized Taho MOUNTAIN shoes! I was really lucky in that I was hanging around some women with various types of clipless/cleated pedals and road and mountain shoes. After seeing someone demo her Speedplay Frogs (no moving parts! nothing to adjust! no little bits to jam or break!) I was hooked. Another women had feet like mine and loved her Tahos.

It was so helpful to see equipment and shoes being used in real life, and not just a salesman showing them to me in an LBS.

[Zen]

Knot, you may have just sold me a pair of Frogs I've been having an awful time with the pedals I have lately, sometimes finding it difficult to clip in and it's really been slowing me down on group rides.

Are the easy to get in and out of?

[KnottedYet]

Knot, you may have just sold me a pair of Frogs I've been having an awful time with the pedals I have lately, sometimes finding it difficult to clip in and it's really been slowing me down on group rides.

Are the easy to get in and out of?

VERY easy! The woman who showed me hers said they are like the lid to a jar. The cleat is the lid, the pedal is the jar. The way they are designed, you can "click in" to them straight on just like other cleated pedals. Getting out of them you just turn your heel outward and they "unscrew". If you start to fall to the side your heel heads outward toward the ground and your cleat unscrews, so your foot comes free without you thinking about it.

There is no tension holding your foot in place, so you are pigeon-toed or have a bit sloppy leg positioning on the bike you might unclip accidentally a few times. I did that at first, but the cool thing was that the Frogs trained me to have better self control and posture in a hurry! On my flat pedals on my utility bike now I notice that my knees and hips don't bug me like they used to. I think it's because I trained myself into better body mechanics with the Frogs on my road bike.

Oh, and the pedal is nice a big, so if you miss the cleat and need to pedal like mad when the light turns green, it works just fine.

[withm]

Frogs for me.

I too had a road bike, so thought I had to have road shoes and pedals. Besides, I didn't want to junk up my expensive bike with MOUNTAIN pedals. Or so I thought.

Fast forward 2 months of road pedals and shoes - they were impossible to clip in and out and I put a few hundred miles on working with them. They were very tempermental, and the slightest bit of mud, grass, sand would make them nearly impossible to clip in, or worse, clip out. Hence my experience witn road rash if you are following Mr. Silver's thread...

Changed to Frogs - oh what a difference! So much easier for clipping in and out, and you can actually WALK in the shoes and don't have to be so careful about not getting crud in the cleats. They are actually self cleaning - the action of inserting your foot onto the pedal forces most debris out of the cleat. Sometimes I do give a little squirt of water to the cleats if I've been traisping in a messy area, but that's more an effort to be fastidious than anything else.

[Zen]

Sold!

[KnottedYet]

Elegant simplicity:
http://www.speedplay.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.frog

[emily_in_nc]

I also love Frogs! Like Knotted mentions, I have occasionally clipped out accidentally when doing something tricky (I have them on my mountain bike), but they are SUPER easy to clip into, which I love. I changed to them from Eggbeaters, which I always had problems clipping into with my second foot. Once clipped in, I was very happy with Eggbeaters, but not being able to clip in on a rooty trail is a problem! So, Frogs have solved that problem, I love them immensely. When I replace the road pedals on my road bike, they will be Frogs as well!

Emily