MotorFist has some great new gear coming down the pipe for winter 2017, but first, let’s talk about a non-current product that was cold tested in our backcountry lab last year—the Men’s Carbide Boot. I use the term “non-current” loosely because these boots have actually only been on the market for a year.
Out of the box and in your hands they are surprisingly lightweight and feel even lighter when you slip a foot into them. Comfortable to the uber degree, they make walking a quarter mile uphill to help dig your wife’s sled out doable (which happened to my lovely product tester by the way). On that day and the many others that followed, there was never a time when his feet got too hot, cold or wet—thanks to MotorFist’s eVent technology and 1,200 grams of Primaloft insulation.
Concerns about these boots actually being too light and flexy for technical use dissapear as soon as your legs are flung over the seat. With just the right amount of stiffness, they keep your ankles supported without weighing you down when you have to hop from side to side or drag a leg.
The softer rubber soles make it easy to feel where your feet are on the running boards, but they also stand up to the kicking and bashing of clearing ice and snow. While we are speaking about durability, we did think these boots could use some improvement, since one of the lace eyelets came apart.
That being said, we thought the Carbide Boots stood up well to a full season’s worth of technical riding abuse, and you’ll see them on our trotters—or rather, my better half’s trotters—again this winter.
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