July 14, 2008 at 1:45 pm
#8749
Matt
Participant
DO NOT WEAR STEEL TOED BOOTS!
Seriously.
Steel toe caps can amputate your toes in a violent crash.
There are other issues (less shifter feel) but really, the fact that they cut off toes is reason enough.
I wear laced boots, jsut double the not at the top, no problems there. The combat boots may be an issue depending on how far down the laces go on the top of the foot. My boots have laces that go all the way to the shifter, and so I have to have a leather band placed over that area (I was wearing through my laces).
Protection wise, an adventure, dirt, or sport boot will have armour in it, but a “cruiser” style boot is no safer than a combat boot to the best of my knoweldge.