Clipless Pedals Vs Flat Pedals - Which Is Faster? | GCN Does Science

Is there any benefit to using flat pedals instead of clipless pedals? Matt and Dan decide to conduct some experiments

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What do you think? Is there a difference between using Clipless pedals over flat pedals

Dan and Matt are going to do each of the following both with clipless pedals and using flat pedals
Sprinting x5:
Max 3sec power
Max 5sec power

Climbing:
10minutes with clipless pedals and 10minutes with flat pedals

Descending:
2 x descents of the Passo di Valparola

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