It was decades ago that I first started using clipless pedals. A sign that I was getting more serious about road cycling, I tried Time and later Shimano options, but after a year or two, I eventually settled on Look’s Keo model. And there I stayed, happily clipped in, for many more years. But then I had a hip operation. Once I was back on the bike, I found that my favoured pedals were no longer quite as easy to use.
Having lost strength and mobility in my left foot, leg and hip after the surgery, I was left feeling like a newbie once again, worried as I glided up to a traffic light that my foot wouldn’t budge and I would suffer the indignity of toppling over in front of car drivers and passing pedestrians. I experimented with tension and various floats, but the fundamental issue persisted.
