Heh. Thanks for the advice. We have pedals of all ages around this house. I have a brand new pair with my road bike, but I have had slightly more luck with a pair that my husband took off his old mountain bike after a couple of months of use (he just upgraded to better ones, they weren't worn out). If he adjusts those to the loosest setting I can clip in about 1/3 of the time -- which is still not very good. Yesterday he had me try with the brand new pedals on the bike he bought two weeks ago, and they were the hardest so far, but I don't think he had them very loose.