Loyal readers follow my rants sometimes where I have stated that real bikers — the serious guys who ride motorcycles regularly and who are not aggressive kids on a sport bike or the next Darwin Award contenders (you know, the kind who wear shorts and sneakers or flip-flops while riding) — always wear above-the-ankle motorcycle boots when they ride.

To prove my point, following are random shots that I took of the boots on bikers who showed up at an event that my motorcycle club sponsored yesterday. These are real, honest-to-goodness, hard-core bikers. Not wannabes. While some of these guys are a billboard for a certain brand and are wearing cheap Chinese-made overpriced boots that carry a certain well-known motorcycle brand name, they all demonstrate what I am talking about.

Real Bikers Wear Boots

So here goes… the boots on bikers at this event:

These boots are what I was wearing — Wesco harness boots.

Life is short: wear boots and ONLY boots when you operate a motorcycle.