Daytona makes the best motorcycle boots that money can buy. Nobody who has ever owned, or ridden in, a pair would argue with this assertion. But the range can be confusing, and as the boots are not inexpensive, you will want to know that you're buying the right model. Which is why we have put this brief review together. We did something similar before Covid, and although Daytona's product range is almost glacial in its progress, enough years have probably gone by to justify a re-examination of the range.

Daytona makes the best motorcycle boots that money can buy. Nobody who has ever owned, or ridden in, a pair would argue with this assertion. But the range can be confusing, and as the boots are not inexpensive, you will want to know that you're buying the right model. Which is why we have put this brief review together. We did something similar before Covid, and although Daytona's product range is almost glacial in its progress, enough years have probably gone by to justify a re-examination of the range.

The starting point for any boot is its leather. And Daytona only uses the best. Supple, yet strong, all the hides that are used by Daytona are hydrophobically treated for water repellency at the tanning stage.

In terms of protection, you will always get plastic ankle protectors padded on the inside with open-cell foam. There will be counters in the toe and heel, although Daytona is ever mindful of the need for a motorcycle boot to be comfortable to walk in as well as comfortable to ride in. You will nearly always get a foam-backed, PU gearchange pad on a Daytona boot. On taller boots you will get a wide, shaped, shinbone protector that is padded on the inside with latex foam. And on such boots there will normally be an adjustment mechanism for the calf.

But what you always get with a Daytona that you don't get with most motorcycle boots is a re-enforced, plastic inner sole that incorporates a hot-dip, galvanised, steel inlay for transverse rigidity. It is that will help prevent your foot from becoming crushed if something should drive over the boot.

Of course, there are these days lots of different styles of boot in the Daytona range. Short ones, tall ones, taller ones, more sporty ones, off-road ones and more classic ones, but whatever the boot Daytona will only ever use the best components. So YKK zips, Gore-Tex membranes, Scotchlite reflectors, and so on.

Now when it comes to waterproofing, nobody does it better. There cannot be many weeks here in the shop where we don't have somebody complaining that their motorcycle boots leak. But rare is the occasion where somebody claims their Daytona boot is leaking. It can happen, although it's rare. But when somebody tells us that both their Daytona boots are leaking, we tend to fall about laughing. Because it just doesn't happen. It would be like winning Euromillions two weeks on the trot. And if ever a Daytona book does genuinely leak, say 10 or 20 years down the road, then you have the backing of Gore's lifetime, waterproofing guarantee. If the membrane leaks, they will send you a cheque for a replacement pair!

So what are the downsides with Daytona boot? After all, there must be some.

Well, there's the cost obviously, but there's a big difference between cost and value. The most popular boot in the range is the Roadstar, and it comes in, at today's prices, at a little under £500. But the fact is that you will be wearing them in five years' time, however much you abuse them. Even with just a modicum of care, you'll still be upshiftng in 10 years' time. Look after them properly, and you'll get 20 years or more out of them.

But there's no two ways about it, you can buy a similar-looking, waterproof, touring boot from somebody like TCX for half the price of a Daytona. But frankly, you will be lucky if you get more than three years of regular use out of such a boot. So you do the math. The way we see it, Daytona makes the best value motorcycle boots out there!

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