Originally Posted by
Stickney
UrbanKnight is very kind, but poseurs will look down on you. ;-)
I disagree. The poseurs are too into themselves to even look at what shoes someone else is wearing.
Originally Posted by
walkingitch
What I'm needing is just something I can walk a short distance in without falling over, no long hikes or anything like that.
You're overthinking this. You have pretty much two choices in this matter:
1) Road shoes where the cleat is outside of the shoe and makes you walk on plastic with a sunken heal.
2) Mountain bike (or cyclocross, or touring) shoes which have a clean tucked into the sole to make it easy to walk around in.