Boot is all better now

September 3, 2009
Fort Collins, CO

OK - so it's a slow day around here for motorcycle news. You'll recall when we were riding in the Black Hills of South Dakota not too long ago, I had Tim cut a big ol' hole in one of my Harley boots. Why? Well, my left foot sprouted a horn of sorts and the pressure of that boot was more than I could stand. We were smack in the middle of a really fun weekend and I wasn't about to call it quits so the integrity of that boot had to go. The X-type hole in the boot looked really bad, but it felt really good. I spent the rest of the weekend riding with a hole in my boot and didn't think much about it until we got home. Besides, when I'm wearing my chaps you can barely see the toe of my boots.

I took the damaged boot to Roger's Shoe Repair here in Fort Collins Monday morning. I told the man at the desk I had a sort of self-inflicted blow-out. You should have seen the man's face when he saw the boot. It looked like someone had put a gun in it and blasted a hole from the inside. LOL! He said hmmmmmm.... and hmmmmmm... again. I explained all I wanted was a bubble patch on the outside of the damaged area... He said it might be sort of costly - maybe as much as $25. I'm looking at 1/2 of my $150 Harley-Davidson boots, thinking - you gotta deal.

The boot came home today. It looks and more importantly, feels pretty good. So, I'm back in business and not a minute too soon. Thunder in the Rockies is this weekend. It starts tomorrow evening, but we'll go first thing Saturday morning. After that, who knows where the road will take us. It's a three-day weekend - woo-hoo!

Thunder in the Rockies