02-02-2024, 02:44 AM
I'm with you when it comes to boots, Charlie... high-speed, low-drag. Shallow or no lugs to get hung up on pegs, easy-on, easy-off.
I like the Epic boots because they're tall but allow my jeans to pull over them, foot-in, zip-up, and I'm ready.
The only non-riding wide-enough boots that I've found that fit comfortably enough for riding and aren't too chunky are brown Wolverines, which are my "going somewhere after work" boots. Still, to m in sc's point, they have a pretty soft toe. Still, not wide enough for me for more than a day. I wore them on a week-long trip once, and ended the last day of the ride in $12 WalMart throw-away sneakers because my feet were too sore.
These new boots definitely have a composite structure under the outer material in the toe. I can't compress them by squeezing them and the uppers are also very stiff, so they'll do fine.
Any old boots that are cycled out of riding or working are kept at the in-law homestead, where I'm called upon to do muddy work.
I like the Epic boots because they're tall but allow my jeans to pull over them, foot-in, zip-up, and I'm ready.
The only non-riding wide-enough boots that I've found that fit comfortably enough for riding and aren't too chunky are brown Wolverines, which are my "going somewhere after work" boots. Still, to m in sc's point, they have a pretty soft toe. Still, not wide enough for me for more than a day. I wore them on a week-long trip once, and ended the last day of the ride in $12 WalMart throw-away sneakers because my feet were too sore.
These new boots definitely have a composite structure under the outer material in the toe. I can't compress them by squeezing them and the uppers are also very stiff, so they'll do fine.
Any old boots that are cycled out of riding or working are kept at the in-law homestead, where I'm called upon to do muddy work.