{"id":14387,"date":"2018-11-28T04:00:38","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T09:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=14387"},"modified":"2018-11-28T13:15:33","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T18:15:33","slug":"favorite-motorcycle-boots-discontinued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?p=14387","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Motorcycle Boots &#8212; Discontinued!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Chipfire202-300x204.jpg?resize=300%2C204\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Chipfire202.jpg?resize=300%2C204&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Chipfire202.jpg?resize=150%2C102&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Chipfire202.jpg?resize=768%2C523&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Chipfire202.jpg?resize=440%2C300&amp;ssl=1 440w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Chipfire202.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>When helping a buddy (a motorcop who also rides a personally-owned Harley) with some boot shopping recently, and having raved for years about the comfort, durability, and quality of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bootedman.com\/cycle\/chipfire.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chippewa Firefighter Boots<\/a>, I was shocked when he&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n&#8230;fowarded me an email from the retailer from whom he ordered a pair of these boots that said,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Unfortunately the Chippewa 8-inch slip resistant steel toe trooper boot 27422 has been discontinued.<\/p>\n<p>We have contacted the manufacturer and they have informed me that they will no longer be making this product.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t use profanity often, but Chippewa:  WTF?  <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Chipfirenewblog-300x254.jpg?resize=300%2C254\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-13101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Chipfirenewblog.jpg?resize=300%2C254&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Chipfirenewblog.jpg?resize=150%2C127&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Chipfirenewblog.jpg?resize=768%2C649&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Chipfirenewblog.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Chipfirenewblog.jpg?resize=355%2C300&amp;ssl=1 355w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Note to my loyal booted biker blog readers, there still may be pairs of these boots available from on-line retailers before stock is depleted.  If you have ever considered ordering these boots but haven&#8217;t done so, place your order today from a trusted source\/retailer. <\/p>\n<p>I do not have a specific recommendation of a boot retailer to use &#8212; retailers I have bought boots from before are either sold out or have fallen into a bad state of inventory management and accept orders but put them on extended back-order status.<\/p>\n<p>Man, what a shock.  These are really GREAT BOOTS!  (I even have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/?cat=12\" target=\"_blank\">an entire category on this blog about those boots<\/a>!)<\/p>\n<p>Life is short:  get your Chip Firefighters before you can&#8217;t!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When helping a buddy (a motorcop who also rides a personally-owned Harley) with some boot shopping recently, and having raved for years about the comfort, durability, and quality of Chippewa Firefighter Boots, I was shocked when he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chippewa-firefighter-boots"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bootedmanblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}