um... I don't have too much to add other than, if you want to sort of sidle into clipless, my road bike (Bianchi Eros Donna - great steel frame bike) came with spd clipless - they are usually for Mtn Bikers. I switched to the Look system the next year and had to learn clipless all over again. It would have been easier to just learn one time. I fell a ton of times with the Look, and may not have done if I had just started with them (it's much harder to 'clip out' with the Looks than with the spd's). JMHO...