Good stuff Joe. I disagree about entry into the speed plays. They are dual sided and makes clipping in easier in my book. The zeros are a bit tighter for clipping in than my Frogs, old X3s and X2s.
Joe has been around many more cyclists than I ever will, so he has more points of view.
Personally, the number one disadvantage of Speedplay pedals is the way the interface between cleat and pedal feels: as if you’re stepping on an ice cube – a feeling that completely destroys your confidence on descents, and is disconcerting on every other circumstance. And this is not something that you become accustomed to: I kept my X3s for close to two years and never got comfortable with them. I then tried the Zeroes, but they felt exactly the same: the lack of a return spring action on the float mechanism makes them unacceptable to me.
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How are the rest of you bike handling skills? I ask because all the cyclists (not triathlets) I know that do not like being locked into a <3* float get used to the ice cube feeling withing a month or two. The zeros came out and if you need some support laterally in your pedal system, this is the answer.