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View Poll Results: What's footwear do you choose when you ride?
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Boots most of the time
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129 |
80.63% |
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Sneakers most of the time
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8 |
5.00% |
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Boots or Sneakers....depends on my mood
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9 |
5.63% |
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Boots when it's cold out, Sneakers when it's hot
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10 |
6.25% |
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No Preference
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1 |
0.63% |
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Flip-Flops or Bare Foot
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1.88% |
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06-01-2009, 10:37 PM
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IronButt
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: New Hampshire
Posts: 364
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Footwear..what's your choice?
Like a lot of people, I like to ride my bike to work. What I don't like is wearing my boots if I'm stuck in an office all day. I also don't like wearing boots when it's hot out. 99% of the time, I just wear my sneakers when riding.
Question is, what do you wear and why?
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06-01-2009, 10:45 PM
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Lifetime Premium
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Northern Ontario Canada
Posts: 538
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I generally wear my black sneakers, if its cool out I wear 2 pair of socks. I have been keeping my eyes open for a pair of affordable boots.
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06-01-2009, 10:54 PM
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IronButt
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Manitoba,Canada
Posts: 487
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A fast trip up town I'll wear my Nikes. If I'm going on any ride out of town, HD boots.
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Gerald
2004 Heritage Softail
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06-01-2009, 11:16 PM
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IronButt
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: texas
Posts: 944
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I wear my boots 7 days a week and they are wore out when I'm done.
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06-01-2009, 11:26 PM
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Audentes Fortuna Juvat
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: American in Japan
Posts: 1,489
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Durango harness boots always, unless im in uniform and then its my combat boots!!
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06-01-2009, 11:30 PM
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Banned
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Louisiana
Posts: 494
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Desert boots all day, every day. Black ones for formal occasions.
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06-01-2009, 11:37 PM
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Whatever
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: CA
Posts: 189
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Wear the boots while riding, then swap them out with whatever shoes are appropriate for what you're doing. Easy enough to slip a pair of shoes in the saddlebag.
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06-02-2009, 07:12 AM
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Seasoned Rider
Join Date: May 2009
Location: PA
Posts: 58
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Boots 99% of the time, but I took the bike around the block in sneakers last week after putting slip-ons on it. Country roads, no traffic. That accounts for my 1%. The first thing I noticed was I had more traction when stopped than my usual riding boots gave me, which are cowboy style, work boots, so I ordered a pair of "real" riding boots after letting Google work for me. I love these boots. and for seventy bucks..... can't be beat. |
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06-02-2009, 07:13 AM
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Motored Sports Enthusiast
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: "Lots of different places"
Posts: 913
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nightrob
Durango harness boots always, unless im in uniform and then its my combat boots!!
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Since duties dictate, 4-5 days out of the workweek I'm wearing combat boots. A pair of Vietnam-style green canvas jungle boot custom made in a shoe shop outside Osan Air Base, ROK for around $80 and have lasted 5 yrs.
When I'm at a rally or just joy riding, I swap for my tried and true broken down Harley lace-ups...form-fitted to my pods and broken in beyond belief. I don't care if they are made in china cuz they've always held up to whatever I throw at 'em and never had a blister.
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06-02-2009, 07:25 AM
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IronButt
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: New York
Posts: 547
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Boots All of the time should be the number one option
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06-02-2009, 11:44 AM
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Seasoned Rider
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Midway, FL
Posts: 85
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Durango harness boots or BMW Allround Touring boots, depending on the length of the ride, and what the weather is like. The BMWs are completely waterproof, FWIW, but I mostly wear the Durangos. When they wear out, I will probably replace them with Chippewa or Double H, since they are made in the USA.
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Midway, FL
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06-02-2009, 01:11 PM
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Doof! There it is.....
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Maryland
Posts: 514
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Always boots. H-D Engineer boots in the summer, Danner Ft.Lewis insulated in the winter.
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06-02-2009, 02:07 PM
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Seasoned Rider
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Nanuet NY
Posts: 65
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Boots all of the time.
I have a great pair made by Triumph. Waterproof and I could walk in them all day long. It's time to get new ones but I hate to give them up.
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06-02-2009, 09:48 PM
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I'm Your Huckleberry
Join Date: May 2006
Location: U.S.S.A.
Posts: 989
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Carhartt lace up work boots.. always.
Comfy, waterproof, easy to break in.
Laced up Airborne style. No pinch for me..
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06-03-2009, 06:32 AM
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Premium Member
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Indiana
Posts: 1,084
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I wear boots all the time.
Mine are Red Wings because the company understands that God didn't make all feet in a D width.
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