Orazo Boots

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Orazo Boots

You could order the boots at Pardesi Auto Spares, Gurudwara Road, Karol Bagh in New Delhi.
If you order online at the website, your pair will be delivered to your address anywhere in India by courier.

Aryan

Ordering online would be the best and the most convenient thing, but size does matter! I mean, I would want to be 100 percent sure that the particular size fits before I pay 2- 3 odd thousand rupees. Thanks for that prompt reply.

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46wannabe

Alright. That clears my doubts. But I still think they are best for non-racers. (Not that I'm a professional racer or anything.) Maybe later you guys could design a race-oriented boot as well. Keep it up.

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Joey.

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Orazo Boots

Two details: There is no padding for toe shifter, but the upper is made of 2 mm leather, and underneath it, in the toe region is steel/ rubber flange - this ought to be pretty good for longevity in that region.

Re smelly feet: This would happen in any footwear if it does not breathe. Mesh is one component (lining) that breathes. Orazo boots have foam bonded fabric instead of mesh - this material breathes as well. Besides, this is not the only component that gives breatheability to a footwear. If you study the section of the Orazo boots, in the feet area, they have leather, lined up with nonwoven fabrics - which ensure good breathing, and hence no smelly feet!

satyenpoojary

Interesting, they sound like army boots with the steel/rubber flange...
Too difficult to understand the 'nonwoven' 'foam bonded fabric' and all...
Send me a trial pair I will test ride and post a review for you

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Old Fox

As you all are aware, we had been given some pairs of shoes by Orazo for use during this GIR. We were provided with shoes from their entire model range and we've been using them extensively during this ride.

Till date, after using them for over two months and having ridden about 11000kms, we have not faced any major negative issues with the shoes. All our bikes have toe-type gear shifters only and I believe we would have shifted gears about half a million times by now. But there has been no sign of wear/scouring/denting etc due to gear-shifter pressure on the shoe toe region.

Comfort levels have been good (we've worn the shoes for 15 hrs at a stretch and sometimes more) and the soles did not tend to slip off the pegs even when we put our foot down in muck a couple of times.

Size-fits also do not seem to be an issue. My foot size is somewhere between 9-10 (Euro or 'Bata') and size 9 has fit my foot like a glove.

During the ride, we had given the Orazo people some feedback in respect of making these shoes/boots more specific for motorcycle riding, mainly in terms of extra safety around the ankle area and the need for more 'breathing' in the shoe without compromising on their water-resistance. These changes are more of the 'internal structure' related than being visible externally. (My experience with shoe-manufacturing as I have produced certain shoe components over almost a decade during the 90's came in handy here) Kudos to the seriousness of Orazo, they produced a few more pairs, as prototypes, with those mods and sent them to us in Hyderabad.

We have been using these 'new' boots extensively since then and find them to be really good now. These boots are not 'pure' riding boots(in the sense that they do not have that rigidity and extensive 'hard' protection measures built around them. (All that costs the sky and riding boots as such are not comfortable to walk around in.) They are more of the 'multi-purpose' type foot-wear with a good level of foot protection built in keeping motorcycling in mind.

We have another 4000-odd kms to go and this ride has really put all our equipment, which includes the foot-wear, to its maximum usage. Will keep you all informed about how these shoes have fared over these 75 days. As of now, they are a great deal better than the usual 'metal-toed' trekking boots that end up as riding boots. And I see no reason why they won't remain a 'better' deal in days to come.

Ride long and safe...

Old Fox

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satyenpoojary

@OF: So What happened?
I am kinda intrested in buying the Picus or the Falco.... some more details, especially the 'water-resistant' bit would be good!
Would they last well in Mumbai Rains.... (Consider that to be equivalent to swimming in water :P )

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diffuser911

OF/Sunil sir, please let us know the overall experience, and as Satyen said, water-resistance effectiveness.

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anirudh fz1

old fox ,could shoes having thick soles be difficult to be used with toe shifters which are set low ,as to not being able to get the shoes below the shifters to lift up, i have just bought reebok dmx worth 8k ,found out it cannot be used to shift gears,it just wont go below the shifters

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