I am asked frequently to recommend boots to wear while operating a motorcycle. After all, I own, have tried, and have worn almost 100 pairs of motorcycle boots. I have made it abundantly clear that the ONLY footwear that is acceptable to wear while riding a motorcycle are boots — nothing shorter; not a shoe; not a sneaker; and especially not stupid flip-flops (worn only by contestants for the next Darwin Award.)
However, many motorcycle riders I ride with think…
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For a guy who owns hundreds of pairs of boots, one would think that I would only have boots that are comfortable. Well, mostly that is true, but not for all of them.
Especially now that two things have changed with time: boots age and insoles do not get any softer, and feet age and are not as flexible and tolerant of discomfort as they are when they were young. This is especially true for guys who go from a slim/trim/athletic 120 pounds in their early 20s to … well, middle-age spread. The more weight you carry, the more uncomfortable boots will become.
So here is how this more-than-middle-aged boot wearer deals with boot comfort issues…
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Recently, I was sent a pair of Thorogood Station Boots to try on and to evaluate against two other pairs of station boots I own made by Chippewa and All American.
I have tried and worn a number of pairs of station boots since I began volunteering with my local fire department back in 1982 (took a break from ’85 to ’96, then returned in ’97), and have learned a few things.
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I have an interesting non-invasive piece of software on all 729 of my website’s pages that gives me interesting summary information about website visits.
An intriguing detail shows the “click-through-rate” which my software defines as:
what percentage of people exposed to my website using Google for a given search actually clicked on the result for my website.
Here are the results of what types, styles, and manufacturers of boots draw the most visitors to pages on my website as a result of a google search.
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Following the post titled, My 3 Most Favorite Boots for Motorcycling, I promised at the end of that post that I would follow with a post about boots I have tried and choose not to wear (much.)
They are:
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I have been watching stats for both my boots & leather website and this blog, and for about the past two months, the visits to this blog have been increasing, while the visits to the website have remained flat. Last month, the daily visits to this blog have exceeded the average daily visits to the website.
As a result, I have decided to …
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I have a super-huge boot collection. I really do wear most of my boots throughout the seasons. However, there are some boots that I do not wear (either seasonal or don’t fit but I can’t get rid of), so I store them. I am writing this post as a reminder on how to store boots, and also in reaction to…
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Yay, it’s “dress down Friday,” where men in my office wear denim jeans and informal shirts. No jackets or ties. (Especially “yay” for that!) Even BCO wears dressy jeans and I think we’ve convinced him to ditch the jacket, especially since The Big Cheese doesn’t wear one.
As I was dressing this morning, I looked at my Lucchese Peat Elephant boots and thought …
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Greetings from the (virtual) seat of my Harley! All this week, we have had an exceptional warm spell that has dissipated all signs of the cold, snowy winter that we had. Imagine, just seven weeks ago, photo right, is what we were dealing with.
This whole week, while technically still during astronomical winter, we have had Spring. And where have my boots, leathers, and butt been?
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Every morning at work, I attend and speak briefly at a morning briefing of the Big Cheese and his direct reports, all leaders of the organization for which I work. And every morning, without fail, I catch sight of one of the regular attendees checking out my boots.
Has he said anything?
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