just how walkable are road cycling shoes?

[Maz]

Was tempted to get some road cycling shoes as my current pair of MTBs-SPD are worn out. I walk half a mile daily in cycling shoes before riding to work.

Would you walk that distance in road shoes?

 

[bonj2]

wouldn't want to walk half a mile in road shoes, but would question why you NEED to walk half a mile in your cycling shoes in the first place.

 

[MacB]

due to the reliability of the Garminator we had to carry bikes over a couple of stiles to walk across a railway line on Saturday.

For some reason I found it easy in my flat shoes, the roadies were a little more precarious

 

[Maz]

Thanks for the replies. I will give the road shoes a miss.

 

[nilling]

I have in the past kept a pair of flip-flops in the work's bike shed as I had too many buttock clenching moments going up office stairs

 

[fossyant]

I can manage the path from the door to the road in road shoes...that's it.

 

[John the Monkey]

IME - not very.

I wouldn't want to be doing a half mile in them for sure (aside from anything else, it will bugger the cleats, I'd have thought).

 

[Maz]

would question why you NEED to walk half a mile in your cycling shoes in the first place.

It's a lot easier than handstanding half a mile.

 

[gavintc]

I used to commute in road shoes and walked about 1/2 mile a day in them, fitted with cleat covers over Look Keo cleats. I caught the train and need to walk around the platforms and then at the far end there was a small walk from the car park to the office. It worked for about a year and in that time, I went through 2 sets of cleat covers. It was workable, but not great. Eventually, I decided to fit SPD pedals and got some MTB shoes - much easier.

 

[arallsopp]

+1 for MTB shoes.
My road shoes eat cleats on tarmac.

 

[Dave5N]

Christ, more than ten metres... Take them off and walk in yer socks.

 

[Flying Dodo]

I've wandered around town quite a bit on my Sonoma's without any problems. I've always thought a cycling shoe you can't safely walk in has a bit of a design flaw.

 

[Ben M]

It's a lot easier than handstanding half a mile.

Genuine lol from me =]

 

[monnet]

I've wandered around town quite a bit on my Sonoma's without any problems. I've always thought a cycling shoe you can't safely walk in has a bit of a design flaw.

But I use them for cycling, not walking.

 

[buggi]

you can get pedals that fit both mtb shoe cleats and the kind of cleats that fit on road shoes. my LBS has never heard of them, but the LBS where i worked at my last office showed them to me. they look like a road pedal, but fit Shimano mtb cleats. i dunno what the make is but it might be worth asking your LBS

fit that pedal, and then you can have both MTB shoes and road shoes