AArdvark wrote: Thu Nov 17, 2022 3:51 pm
Leather froot boots for motorcycle gear!
Don't make light of proper motorcycle footwear.
My boss told me this story:
Her husband drove a truck for Ralphs Grocery Company. Although they owned two cars, he liked to commute to work on his motorcycle. But, he went prepared. Full helmet, leather jacket, leather pants, steel-toe boots. Well, one day he had a spill, his body landed, not his head, so his helmet is undamaged; his jacket was ripped to shreds; his pants were torn; and the front of his shoes lost all the leather and the steel cap was dented. His bike was undamaged, and other than a little shaken, he was not injured. Had he not been fully protected, he would have ripped off chunks of flesh and lost all of his toes.
After hearing that story I realized anyone riding a motorcycle should wear steel-toed footwear. I saw a movie once where a girl in a bikini is driving a motorcycle
barefoot. I'm thinking ("That girl is risking death or badly injured and doesn't even Iknow it.")