These are the Joey Shoes by Alpinestars, they’re designed with summer riding in mind and they’ve been designed to look as much like standard street attire as possible.
Looking at them externally you’d never know that they’re fitted with dual density ankle protectors, reinforced internal toe box and heel counters and a replaceable anatomically engineered PU foam footbed. Though these shoes aren’t going to be as safe as a set of armoured motorcycle boots, they do come pretty close – and they offer an order of magnitude more protection than your Converse Chuck Taylors.
The Joey Shoes are available in two colours – black or a combination of black, grey and red. They cost $139.95 USD and are available in sizes from 6 right up to 13.
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This cheat sheet is designed to tell you everything you need to know to get familiar with the new motorcycles, without burying you in thousands of words of twaddle that you don’t have time for. The new Indian FTR 1200 and FTR 1200 S are almost certainly the most hotly anticipated motorcycles of 2018, certainly…
This series of anti-pollution masks from Rare Bird London were developed to both look good, and provide a UK Ministry of Defence military-grade air filter that can be worn everyday. The user-replaceable filter is a 100% pure activated carbon cloth with sub-micron filtration capability to block out particles down to the 2.5 micron size range….
This is one of Steve McQueen’s own personal motorcycle helmets, adorned with his name on either side with the logo for his film company Solar Productions. Steve can be seen in very similar helmets in many of the motorcycle races he entered in-period including Bruce Brown’s iconic documentary On Any Sunday. He seemed to prefer…
The car used in the seminal 1986 film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is widely thought to be a 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California. This is because it looks an awful lot like one, and because it’s literally described in the film as such: “The 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California. Less than 100 were made. My father…
Neon White Rose Gasoline signs could be seen on highways and byways coast to coast in the early to mid-20th century. The White Rose trademark belonged to The National Refining Company located in Cleveland, Ohio. The company had started out refining kerosene which had been widely used for lighting homes before the invention of the…
The Heritage Leather Road Jacket by VKTRE Moto Co. is designed to work as both a motorcycle jacket and a driving jacket, it’s made from 1.2 to 1.3 mm full grain cowhide sourced from a local Los Angeles-based family-owned tannery. The team at VKTRE designed the Heritage with pockets for removable armor needed by motorcyclists,…
