boots with kickstart plate

Sometime ago I stupidly threw out my really old leather boots that had a
plate under the right foot which really helps when kickstarting SOBBs.

Does anyone know of any kind of modern equivalent boot? My right foot is
a bit hurty after trying to start one in trainers.

Google mojo fails me, not helped by the fact there seems to be a brand
called kickstart.

 

If you want something truly up to the job, then MX boots.
Unfortunately not ideal on road bikes - too bulky and stiff for many
road bike gearshifts.

 

FWIW, I use industrial safety boots which have a nail puncture proof
plate in the sole.

 

Worth noting that pukka motorcycle boots, being classified as safety
footwear, are VAT exempt. They've usually got to have steel toecaps to
qualify.

 

[cough] ITYM, "Zero rated."

IIRC, nothing is Euro-tax free any more, just not yet taxed above zero.
Their stated intention is that everything will eventually have real VAT
added to it, minimum 5%, including food, water, etc.

They'd tax air if they could find an easy way to do it.

 

Sir is quite correct. I do.

 

After reading about some poor sod with less than his full complement of
toes as a result of the toecap neatly shearing off the others in a bike
crash, I've avoided wearing them on a bike.


It surprises me not that crn wears them.

 

Which is, of course, a well known urban legend.
Any damage sufficient to damage steel toecaps would have mashed the feet
anyway..

 

Oddly enough, I agree with you on this one. Yes, toecaps can be bent;
yes, it's possible that they could be bent enough to severely damage
the feet; but equally yes, the impact needed to do this would have
been catastrophic in the first place.

I've only seen this happen once, where a poorly-secured three tonne
cylinder liner[1] dropped from about two feet onto the foot of the 2nd
engineer. His toes were bruised as a result of the toecap bending, but
would have been crushed to a pulp had he not been wearing them.

[1] Ship's main engine, 9-cylinder diesel, each cylinde big enough for
a large man or two to stand upright inside.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Ace

That one was put to bed pretty comprehensively by "Mythbusters" a while
back.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

I have already made the greatest contribution to the fight against climate
change that I can make: I have decided not to breed. Now quit bugging me and
go and talk to the Catholics.

 

Need to be very shit toecaps for a horse to bend them. I had a new pair
of CE stamped boots in 2007 and you can drive a decent size truck over
them without deforming.

 

Ah, that's good to know. Oddly I was thinking about my old FT TT [1]
boots just the other day and thinking that no-one would make steel
capped bike boots nowadays.

Having said that, the story I heard was that the toecap *didn't* bend;
the theory was that the toe of the boot could be bent up and back
(which the toes and leather/rubber would flex with) and the toecap
then acted as a guillotine, cutting the toes off.

[1] Toe'tector I think.

 

YOU are the urban legend. People far and wide cannot believe how fucking
stupid you are.

Utter utter cock.
The mechanism of toe-shearing was a trapping of the toe-cap and the cap
being pivoted around the rear of itself, thus cutting off the toes.