Running shoes really? you should be wearing boots ,They make replacement knees and hips ,not ankles and feet.  Protect your feet and ankles there are way to many small bones down there!Steel plates and screws suck !

always have boots on my feet when riding.  wouldn't feel right any other way.
to each their own.  but i always wear a helmet and boots.  armored jacket most of the time.  you can't control the other folks on the road.

Just an FYI - I never wear running shoes now.  That was years ago!  I, too, wear heavy boots, helmet and armored jacket - ALL the time!

One day while flat tracking got a nasty burn on my left foot when my Danish Clogs caught on fire !!!

I've got to ask, when an original poster asks a serious question, why do many of these threads turn into non-sensical, unproductive comments?

piedmontbuckeye wrote on 07/04/17 at 07:37:54:

Because if no one replies, then the OP feels unloved.
So if we reply with BS, we don't know.  
But if we pop this sucker back to the top, maybe someone will.
Yeah... catch 22... even that had it's moment, a real life mass B-25 takeoff.

batman wrote on 07/04/17 at 09:18:09:


I didn't mind your advice - actually I agree!  That's why I clarified about how I use boots now.

I was objecting to some of the snarly remarks that add nothing to the original question.

I even like some of the humor from time to time.

batman wrote on 07/09/17 at 20:44:39:


Point taken!  However, in this section, I really love the serious answers to the OP.  I often just read these posts and answers just to familiarize myself to serious answers to that, in the future, I have ideas on possible problems of my own that may crop up.

Even though I have disagreed with some, I still value the opinions and experiences of you folks!