SIDI performa Gore boots
When we talk bike performance there certainly is a lot to cover, but even when we jump from machine to riders – the conversation will usually revolve around riding suits, helmets, and gloves.
For some reason, boots never seem to come up in this conversation nearly as much as the aforementioned.
According to the National Library of Medicine, "The foot is a complex structure comprised of over 26 bones, 30 joints, numerous tendons, ligaments, and muscles responsible for our ability to stand upright, supporting the weight of the entire body and provides the base for the mechanism for bipedal gait."
According to the Book of Backroads – there is a shit load of bones and stuff you can injure in your foot; and if you have two – twice that. That’s science.
Our point is that we need to protect of feet all the time, and thus we need to have superior boot protection and we need to wear them every time we ride.
How many times have you seen somebody riding in sneakers or worse? Too many times.
Enter SIDI Boots.
We have been wearing SIDI Motorcycle Boots for more than a decade now and we find them to offer superior performance on every level, like all the 'stuff' going on in your foot – there are many levels of performance in which a good boot must excel, and this month we'd like to touch on all these levels and use SIDI's Performa Gore Boots as a wonderful example of how to do things right.
Comfort:
If the shoe fits, wear it, right? But if the boots you have are uncomfortable then your ride will be more a chore than a pleasure.
The best review about a boot is that… well, that once on you hardly think about them.
These boots feature a cushioned arch area, along with a zippered elastic panel that allows for ease of fitment and removal; and we have always found SIDI boots rarely need a break-in, although after a thousand miles or so they are like old friends.
Protection:
So, comfort is key, but boots are here for support and protection and the SIDI Performa Boots have a contoured and secured shin plate with lower air channels to allow for a bit of air as well. The calf area features exhaust vents in soft polyurethane, shielded with mesh.
These boots have a track bent to them with replaceable sliders. The sliders can be swapped out and come in options of full nylon, ceramic, or aluminum inserts.
A long, strong, and well-placed zipper and wide and tenacious velcroed armored flap, emblazoned with the SIDI logo ensures the boots will stay on.
Yes. Stay on.
I recently was a small part of a great team effort (you know who you are and you ROCK!) handling a simply horrific accident where the rider hit SO hard their boots came off. Okay, read it again… their boots came off and were gone never to be seen again.
It was not pretty. Great pedicure gone to shit.
Well-fitted and built boots need to stay on to do their job -and I am pretty confident that SIDI Boots can handle this task.
Waterproofness:
One of the saddest feelings is that very first trickle or realization that rain has somehow breached the perimeter. The barbarians at the gate, they are in. All is lost!
Not with the SIDI Performa Gore Boots.
The core of all GORE-TEX fabric-engineered products lies in the GORE-TEX membrane, which boasts an astounding 1.4 billion microscopic pores per square centimeter (9 billion pores per square inch). These pores are incredibly tiny, being 20,000 times smaller than a water droplet, while they are 700 times larger than a water vapor molecule. This means that external water will never breach the membrane, while perspiration can effortlessly escape, reducing moisture buildup within the insulation. The outcome: you remain warmer in cold conditions and drier when you perspire. Dry feet are happy feet, and happy feet smile and dance.
Wet cold feet, well they pout and slosh.
If you are in the market for a new pair of riding boots, or just now realized you maybe should be, take a look at SIDI Motorcycle Boots – they have several styles and looks - but all are built with the same quality that we learn to rely on.
