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View Poll Results: What type of footwear to you use to ride?
Riding boot (leather boot, etc)
397
90.23%
Riding shoe (Puma ducati, Sidi shoe, etc)
5
1.14%
Some type of plain sneaker/tennis show
38
8.64%
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Do you wear riding boots everytime you ride?

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Old Jul 3, 2009 | 09:38 AM
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Almost always riding boot for me, on the rare occasion i just have a regular shoe on, it feel odd when i'm riding.
 
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Old Jul 3, 2009 | 09:39 AM
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Jeans and boots. The only way to ride-
 
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Old Jul 3, 2009 | 10:00 AM
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I always wear boots. I can only imagine the damage that would have happened to my feet during my accident this week, if I wore runners or sandals. *shudders*
 
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Old Jul 3, 2009 | 10:12 AM
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always boots - all it takes is one time and no / mangled foot, no thanks. Raced motocross for long enough to know - it's not if, but when you go down.
 
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Old Jul 3, 2009 | 10:40 AM
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If I'm not in bed or in the shower i've got boots on, I own a pair of tennis shoes but only wear them on the rare occasion that i get the time to go fishing
 
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Old Jul 3, 2009 | 11:22 AM
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Always: Boots, Draggin' Jeans, Armored gloves, armored jacket, full face......Overkill?...Maybe...But that's just the way I roll.....
 
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Old Jul 3, 2009 | 11:58 AM
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I think it's ironic that so many people are adamant that they always wear boots, but so many people ride w/out helmets. As if your toes are more important than your head.
 
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Old Jul 3, 2009 | 12:40 PM
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A skint toe hurts like a mother...you squash your brains out and you're not gonna know about it



just kidding...I'd wear a helmet even if there wasn't a helmet law.
 
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Boots!
 
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Originally Posted by KopperTop
For me, boots 100% of the time -- anything else is ghey. When stopping in traffic holding up more than a half ton of bike, gear and bodies, I require sure footing. There are plenty of things to complain about after a long ride (back, butt, hands), but my feet are never unhappy in boots.

I don't see too many guys riding in sneakers around me. Sneakers are ghey. You're likely to get your assed kicked in these parts riding a Harley wearing your Keds. I do see quite a few guys wearing shorts and riding boots. An interesting look, but also ghey due to the shorts, and therefore, not for me.

I've pulled my bike into the garage wearing something other than boots and it's a pain to shift in anything with a soft top. I don't know how anyone can up-shift in soft top shoes. They must be ghey.

Note: I have homosexuals, people do ghey things on bikes.

You sure do know a lot about gay people.
 
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