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Unique Engineer Boots with actual Tire
Treads for the Soles and Heels.
Thanks to Skip for the story and
pictures.
| "...And the biker from Kentucky looked
at me and said, 'I'll bet you don't know something about those
tire treads you added to your engineer boots.' Bikers in
the St. Louis, Missouri area have always added automobile tire
treads to the soles and heels of their engineer boots. It
makes the heels three inches high and the soles a corresponding
height. I have always done so to my own engineer
boots. I also knew that the shoe repair guys who did the
tire treads were slowly disappearing. Fewer and fewer did
it, until now it is impossible to find one who will add the
treads." |
| "I asked the biker from Kentucky,
'Know what?' He explained that if a man wore tire treads
added to his engineer boots it identified him as a biker either
from St. Louis or Kentucky. I began to think, indeed I had
never seen this on engineer boots in any other location in the
country. Then I happened to be in Kentucky a short time
later on a vacation. And I discovered several Blue Grass
riders had thick heavy tire treads on their engineers. I
spoke with several of the shoe and boot guys who added these to
the engineer boots at their shops, and they considered it an
art." |
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Skip, Saint Louis, Missouri
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". . . with liberty and justice for all."
