HI Grant

Should have elaborated. Coming around a 40km/h corner, tail starts to come out, put my leg out parallel to forks, bit of power, sliding, all good, rear steps out more, boot heel touches the ground, levelled my foot and a rock grabbed the metal part at the front of the boot and basically stopped it dead.

Bike is still moving and the leg pivots at the knee. The steel toe cap on the front ripped off the inside two rivets and folded to the outside.

It could have just been a fluke accident which is why I say its something to consider or think about, not ‘must’.

Funny you should mention riding toes down. I was a police Chief motorcycle instructor and it was the one thing that took a lot of work to get out of a new rider, particularly later on in the course when you are scraping the sides of your shoes along with the footpegs. They had three weeks to get that out of their system before the speeds went up.

Just going on a bit more about the boots. On our road bikes we wore normal boots with gators and jodphurs - think WW1 flying clothes or Australian Light Horse - anyway, I low sided a K1100 at about 70kmh and my left foot grabbed, twisted and rolled. Though I rolled my ankle and strained some of the ligaments, my left knee was fine. And I had already dislocated my left patella twice.

Hence why I ride with short boots today.




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