As anyone who has visited my motorcycle boot collection on my website has seen, I have a rather large collection of motorcycle boots. But over and over again, I come back to three fundamental boots that I wear more often than any others. For this post, I will describe the boots that many guys choose to wear because …
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Monthly Archives: June 2016
One Month Post-Crash
Time has an odd way of seeming to fleet by rapidly, and also stand still. Thus has been my recovery from injuries sustained in the crash I had while riding my Harley to work one month ago. How am I doing now?
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Creative Marketing Appeal by Dress Shoe Manufacturer
Any reader of this blog or viewer of my website know that I have a dim view of dress shoes. I frequently use the adjective “dorky” to describe them. Of course that is my personal opinion, shared by few men, except those who, like me, understand that boots make the man, not dress shoes.
Anyway, I have to give credit to the marketing people of the dress shoe maker …
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Black Jack Boot Comfort Over Time
In February 2014, I wrote a post for this blog comparing Black Jack cowboy boots with Lucchese cowboy boots. In that post (at the time), I stated my general endorsement of Black Jack boots over Lucchese boots because in 2014, Lucchese was not allowing discounting from full-price MSRP, and also…
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Community Caring
Sniffle, sniffle… I was deeply touched this past Tuesday evening when my community where I live paid tribute to me for service at a surprise recognition event. Here’s the back story…
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Swelling, Sneakers, Dress Shoes, and Boot Insteps
Now 22 days out from my Harley crash during my commute to work on 31 May, I am continuing to recover, but have no progress to resolve ankle swelling. I discussed the situation with a physician who specializes in orthopedics, the medical specialty dealing with injuries to the human skeletal system. He examined me and said that…
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Ride To Work Day
Today, June 20, in the 25th annual “Ride To Work Day” where riding a motorcycle to work is promoted (unlike the tongue-in-cheek “Ride Your Bike To Work” day on 21 May intended for bicycles but I rode my Harley instead.) Today, my Harley and I are…
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Boot Reviews
Over the years, I have purchased, worn, tried, and/or read about many different brands of boots. I have received a number of email messages asking me for opinions on this-or-that brand of boots, or from people who have said that my website or this blog helped them as they did research about boots.
In 2010, while confined at home to recover from an ankle break, I created my boots wiki that I thought could be a collaborative way for guys to contribute knowledge about boots. Well, the “contribution” part didn’t work. But the ability to add, edit, and display information continued.
So today, I have information about hundreds …
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Back To A Booted Routine
Hey there, loyal blog readers. Now that it has been 16 days after my motorcycle crash that was no accident, how am I doing?
Well, …
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There Are Good, Honest People In This World
I refrain from writing about news-of-the-day on this blog, especially when there are political overtones, because inevitably others who disagree get angry and do things from attempting to hijack this blog’s comments section, to initiating cyber-attacks on my server. (Yep, that has actually happened.)
But I cannot let an awful, evil situation that happened at an LGBT nightclub in Florida go by without comment. However, I will contrast my comment with another about someone stepping up and doing the right thing, admitting fault in causing my recent motorcycle crash.
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