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Motorcycle Footwear Can Protect Your Toes As Well As Keep Your Feet Temperate.

By: Michael Alden

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I am relieved I had a high-quality pair of Harley Davidson boots on as I was out riding on my previous road tour.

The morning started out cloudy and a bit cool as I headed out to rally a few acquaintances for a day run up in the hills. Because of the low temperature I decided to wear a hooded sweatshirt, leather motor biker jacket also chaps. I also decided to wear a good pair of steel toed Harley Davidson boots to help keep my toes toasty and dried out. Yes! I did wear my helmet as well. Hey, I am no dummy, how else was I going to keep my ears cozy. So at any rate, I met up with my associates, drank a cup of coffee and we hit the road.

Visibility wasn't terrible apart from the sprinkle that kept forming on my screen. I would wipe the rain off and in about a half of a instant the mist would cover my shade again. It was a little challenging to see, but we biked on.

Because of the mist the roads shined and had a slippery coating on them. We weren't going in excess of the speed limit of 45 mph but do to the road conditions that was amply rapid.

My companion Jim was the lead bike Sammy was second and I was third. Jim singled that he needed to stop for fuel, so at the next place we stopped. We all fueled up got another cup of coffee, talked and horsed around a bit while we drank the coffee, then cruised out again.

Boy it felt huge to finally have my motorcycle out of the storage after the lingering cold weather we had. Isn't it always so pleasurable that opening run of the year?

Finally after roughly an hour and a half into the motorcycle ride the sun began to shine. It had scarcely started to peer through the clouds when out of nowhere a mini-van full of little ones pulled out from a side road straight in front of us.

Jim saw it coming and was able to veer off to the left barely in time to avoid it and go past. Sammy saw it a bit late and set his bike down. His motorcycle slid under the station wagon while Sammy skidded on the street just to the right of the small bus.

Unhappily for me, I was the last to observe the small bus and by the moment I did, I was already soaring over the top. Yeah that is right; I run into it square in the side door and was launched over the top therefore landed on my face on the other side.

I thumped the road fiercely, slid for about one hundred feet, then my motorcycle boot caught the edge of a pothole or something and I began to flip end over end. When my motorcycle boot wedged on what ever it did, it felt like my lower leg had just been taken off.

I finally came to a stop face first in the approaching traffic lane. I am so grateful there was no approaching traffic at that time. It's also a good thing for helmets, leather motorcycle jackets, leather motorcycle chaps and full finger motorcycle gloves.

I am especially appreciative for steel toed leather motorcycle boots though, since the rut I hit, turned out to be a rut on the edge of a steel manhole cover, so when my foot jammed it, half of the cow hide got taken off of form the toe. The steel toe part was there but the leather was no more. I am grateful because, with out the steel toe section of the motorcycle boot, most certainly I would have lost my toes, if not my whole foot.

I got fortunate! I ended up walking away from that one. I didn't even break a bone. I guess I can attribute it to luck, but I know wearing the correct motorcycle boots and equipment had a lot to do with it.

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Motorcycle boots are the initial line of security in safety and Michael Alden knows the importance of steel toes motorcycle boots and leather riding gear for motorcycle safety. Michael has been a licensed motorcyclist for thirty years and writes regarding every characteristic of motorcycle riding and safety. If you would like more information about motorcycle boots or women’s motorcycle apparel look at Motorcycle Boots For Women.

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