I’m looking for an indoor specific pair of shoes and I stumble on those adidas
They are in the similar price range of the Shimano
The question is, is the Adidas one any good? They seem nice, and I honestly can see myself riding them outside next summer. While the Shimano ones, not really.
Another alternative would be a pair of DMT KR4. I found them for CAD179, which isn’t bad at all. It’s a sale price and the colour is green, which I did not like heheh.
I have the colourful versions of the Adidas ones, dedicated for indoor riding. They are super comfortable. There is an elastic piece to store the laces under, but they can flap around a bit. Not super stiff, don’t think they’d stand up to much outdoors, but they do the job indoors fine.
If I may ask, what are you looking for exactly, a cheap shoe or a well-ventilated shoe?
If you want an inexpensive good cycling shoe, here are some options:
A well-ventilated one.
I have a cheap Specialized Torch 1.0. It does the job, but it gets wet every time. They aren’t warm while using. A well-ventilated, even indoor orientad in Shimano’s case, would be ideal as they not only are breathable, but cleanable.
EDITED: I should mention that I have those moisture-attractors things which I put inside the shoes right away. But they need a good old-fashioned wash with water, and they don’t dry pretty well. As time goes by they get a bit discusting, to be honest. My Shimano RC5 grew an irreversible smell. Luckily they are at the end of their life, so I don’t care much at this point. So the idea is to replace them with a RC7, avoid using them indoors, and buy a dedicated indoor one, well-ventilated and easy to clean/dry.
If water and ventilation are concerns look at tri shoes
Look into some triathlon shoes….usually some of the best ventilated shoes on the market and you can usually find good sales on them.
Had also read this tip around here. Any idea where to start?
Don’t think you are in the US (could be wrong), but I’m sure you can find a local site that has these ( or an equivalent)
Yep, those are the first ones that showed when I searched. They seem a good option for a reasonable price. Thanks
Shouldn’t you use the same shoes for indoor as outdoor? I imagine you want the same arch support, cleat placement, sizing etc.
Not really. It’s like having 2 pairs of shoes. They won’t be identical.
My current race and indoor shoes (since my tri bike is my trainer bike) are some like 10ish year old specialized expert shoes, don’t think specialized makes tri shoes any longer. They aren’t as venty as the fizik above but same idea bit velcro closure and mesh over the toe area. There are also holes in the bottom so they let any moisture out pretty quick. no issues with them drying out from one day to the next. Since they are tri shoes I wear them sockless and no issues with funk. Maybe once a year I scrub them up in the sink with some dish soap and a finger nail scrub brush that sort of thing.
Basically tri shoes is where you want to look.
I use fizik Vento Infinito Knit Carbon 2 shoes, and they seem cool and sturdy with carbon soles. I have 4 pairs, and one of the Vento Ferox Carbon SPD shoes, and they work the same as the road shoes: cool and stable.
Their road shoes are on ‘promo’ (sale) on their website, and likely at other dealers. Awesome shoes! I have a pair of Bontrager XXX, and the heel cup is too extreme for my feet, and those were HOT!! 
EDIT: Not necessarily ‘indoor specific’, but my feet tend to get hot in other shoes I’ve used, and these, they are comfortable.
And they’re are beautiful. I had an eye on them and that would be my second choice. A knit shoes which I could use indoor and outdoor. They seem very comfortable.
Yeah, Fizik’s knitted shoes have always looked amazing. Unfortunately, they are also very narrow and I can’t even put them on.
Hmm. That hasn’t been my experience at all. Wow. I usually run into narrow shoes and my choices are usually severely limited at what might be in stock at the local REI. I buy the size that I bought for pre-sellout Birkenstocks and they nearly fit perfectly. I have some minor tightness in the toe and forefoot area, but after a month, they are a much better fit. I fell in lust for a Sidi pair, and spent some time at the REI trying to see what size I would have to buy to get them to fit, and they were so LOOOOOONG that I was afraid of tripping on the because the toe was so ‘out there’. They looked comical, but I wasn’t laughing. I even tried their supposedly ‘wide’ Mega series, and YIKES! Nope… I hope they work for some people.
I bought the same size I wear in their ‘wide’, and yeah it’s actually TOO wide. 
In a world filled with a perceived glut of ‘ballerina shoes’ for cycling, I tend to stick to brands that are for ‘real people’ and fit my/our ‘real feet’. But shoes are very personal, and I’m sorry they didn’t work for you. I hope you have found shoes that do fit. When I started out in cycling more seriously, I had to make some sacrifices for shoes. I did ride narrow shoes. OUCH!!
The temperature control, I feel, helps my feet a lot as they seem to swell a bit when they get hot. I have pictures (somewhere in my gallery) of the twin streaks of sweat that poured out of the vents of the Bontrager XXX’s as I rode out Peloton. Crazy swamp streaks, longer with average cadence. Really 
. (I also could food the mat under that bike, effectively gluing it to the floor. Extra gross!)
I should preface this by saying that I have legit wide feed. Almost always did I have to opt for the wide version. This had to be specially ordered, so I could never try them on before buying.
I really loved Fizik’s knitted shoes when they were first released. They had a colorful design that I particularly liked and they were on sale in my size (length-wise).
I have had Sidi Megas in the past and while the shoes fit, the quality, especially for the price, was atrocious. Despite greasing my cleat bolts religiously, they had to be dremeled away twice in my then-LBS.
Why are you doing that to yourself? There are plenty of choices that don’t force you to compromise in any way. Three options that worked for me are
They all have affordable models. E. g. Lake makes shoes with different lasts (front bits of the shoe), and a regular width of one of their more relaxed shoes (≠ race fit) could be what you need.
When I started riding more seriously was in the 80’s, and LBS’s only ordered what they could sell. Sidi was all over the place, and some other Italian brands. To be honest, I was so discouraged by the choices, I thought I’d be stuck with crappy shoes. It WAS a joke how narrow the shoes I encountered were. ‘Who wears these?’ I kept wondering…
I had a pair of Scott’s (when I moved to the current house) that were hot as hell, but fit really extremely well. Eventually the sole completely delaminated from the upper and even using ‘heavy duty’ adhesive, they had to be tossed. I spent years in those shoes.
But Bontrager was a brand that I never encountered until Specialized started threatening the largest bike shop in the area, and they started bringing in Trek stuff on a part time basis. I LOVED the look of the Red XXX, and though expensive, fit well. I encountered Lake when I was looking for winter 2-bolt shoes, and they fit really well, but had never heard of that brand up until then.
Another brand that was wide enough was Shimano! I still have my first and best fitting SPD-2 bolt shoes, a hi-rise Shimano pair. They gave me hope. (They are hot too)
My feet are wide, but the biggest issue I face is I have ‘shockingly high’ arches too. (Like no cowboy boots for these feet unless they are customs 
)
Why WAS I doing that to myself? To use clipless pedals, you need compatible shoes, and if the only pair you can find out of the dearth of choices available, you get the pair that fits the best out of the ones that don’t. (Interesting, your comment on Sidi. Back then I was told they were ‘the best shoe brand’. Hah!! Maybe they were back then, don’t know…
Trying to remember all the early shoes I had. Liked a Nike pair, might have had an Avocent pair, had a toe clip pair of shoes I tossed with those damn pedals when I went Look. My wife has had similar issues with finding shoes that fit. She really liked the Peloton mystery brand shoes, until one pair fell apart soon after she bought them. I tried to get her into the fizik shoes but she’d saner than I am. Figures that she isn’t going to pay that much for shoes she uses a couple of times a month. The woman that ironically has thousands (a slight exaggeration) of pairs of shoes, and won’t get better riding shoes. When/where I started, I had such a limited choice.