Road bike recommendations

Oh and thanks for the shoe tips. How about pedals? Any views on vintage Campy?

I've got some late 70s campag pedals that look lovely. Unfortunately they were incredibably uncomfortable and if I road wearing trainers such as converse for more than 30-45mins they'd start to hurt my feet. I'd guess that's because they were designed for hard soled cycling shoes.

I think once I post a pic up people will realise why clips not clipless, despite having a modern groupset it's a very retro bike.

But mostly it's because I fear change

I saw someone riding the other day with some very neat classicly styled SPD pedals - flat one side, clipless on the other. See if you can find some.

Personally I think that you can find clipless pedals that 'work' with a classic build.

... I can see the point for the round town commuter who wants to wear one pair of shoes, I should add.

Agreed. Although I always ended up wearing the same pair of converse to ride in straps and cages so I did t have to fart about with readjustments....and I carried a bag for my lock...so there didn't really seem much point.