General: Best clipless pedals/shoes for fixed/brakeless street riding...

I'm wanting to switch over from riding cages w/ street shoes, to riding clipless pedals. I'm quite certain I want to get MTB shoes so I can walk a little in them when needed.

The problem I'm worried about is that riding brakeless, I occasionally have to do a skid stop, and I'm worried about pulling out of the pedals. I ride a 49/17, so I can skid/stop fairly easy, but I would still like to get some suggestions hopefully from other people riding brakeless with clipless pedals.

Thanks.

I use shimano spd-m520's with some specialized comp mtb shoes, and it works great for me.

Oh yea.. They hold you in a little too good sometimes.

I keep the float turned all the way up when I'm riding them on the fixed, so I don't accidentally clip out when pulling up for a skid. Since I pretty much never disengage from them while riding fixed, it doesn't really impact me much.... then I switched them over to my geared bike one morning before work....

While riding down a low traffic back road, some prick in a lexus suv (go figure) whips by me, with literally only a few inches of clearance. Being the level headed genius that I am, I decide to race up behind him and catch him at the next light to give him a piece of my mind. I book it up to the light, skid to a stop next to him, then instinctively try to go into a stand as I'm flipping him off... Of course the stand didn't go as planned... causing me to lose my balance, at which point I couldn't clip out and fell up against the car in the turn lane to my left.

The second most spectacular fall would be the first day I rode with them on my fixed, and fell over in front of a group of kids waiting for a school bus while trying to fakie with the clipless setup. For some reason my brain just can't seem to register clipping out properly while riding backwards.

Posted By: o_OI have mavic razors (shoes) and Time Atacs (pedals)
This setup is great for me, and while i don't skid too much (i have a brake) when I do, it feels fine.



also brakes are smart.

+3 here, time atacs are the bee's knee's and I'd have em if i didn't get my SPD pedals and nike MTB shoes for $15 total. I tried on those razors and they felt better than anything else i've tried on.

I dig my Bebops, but I don't ride a fixie, so I don't know if they'd give you a hard time. I doubt it.