Sidi Vortice Boot Review - Crash Tested 

To this day, he has 1+ million, you have earned your wish.

I reckon it would have passed. Same nylon-polyurethane as on the ankle protector, which passed the 100g test. ~RyanF9

Nice - I like it. ~RF9

Yeah it's stupid, they were never even advertised as water resistant.

Thats the thing

Yeah... Ryans tests are absolute BS! No science there at all. The same as he missinformed people about tyre traction. Highschool physics isn't enogh for such topics. I guess all the engineers are idiots for puting wide tyres on superbikes. I have my second pair of SiDi boots and they are the best! I had the Vertigo Corsa and now I have the Vortice. Had two hard crashes with the bike falling on my ankle sliding with the bike on it for a couple of meters before the bike went away. Not even a bruise! Second crash was on the track with aproximately 3 sommersalts and 6 barrelrolls before I stopped in the gravel and again, not even a bruise. And the best thing?! I have the Vortice boots for 11 years! On road, on track and they are immortal! My friend went from Vortice (after 15 years he was lazy to let new shoesoles to be reglued) for Alpinestars Supertech R and he is so disappointed. That shoe is too fat. One weak point of SiDi boots? They are not very comfortable. You have hard parts in contact with parts of your feet, but if you are not spoiled, you get used to it. But the problem for me is, how much vibration they transfer into your feet. You have superb feeling with them, but you get a lot of vibrations into your feet and the last rides on a trackday are really painful for me.

I've had SEVERAL (100+) instances where I've found my feet completely submerged. Right upto the shin.

Corozals would be nice, altough probably would be too closely usage wise

Why though? You crash, you go flying. The bike provides no safety. It would just be a test to see how much you have to pay at the end of it all.

thats the whole point

@@thatguyoverthere8097 not true, a bad bike can hold on to you and bring you down with it like my daelim did, furthermore it would also be a test of leak resistance (aka will there be a fuel spill) and all around safety

You're wrong on most of it. Yes, they're designed for the track, but you know that street riders buy them to ride in simply because they look the race part. So, testing for traction is a valid test. Same with hitting on the inside, since a large part of accidents are the bikes falling on the ankle, the inside. He already said in the video the shift pad was the easiest and it got a passing slide grade. Although I don't think anyone would use these tests and the results as their final decision maker, some of the points from these tests are valid. Some are just for the humour of it.

the motorcycle falling on on it is not a high speed impact but a slow crushing force since the delta speed is low. that is like judging sneakers on how they perform in a marathon because you look good running in them. yes it should be mentioned that they are not good for it, but letting it affect the rating of the shoe is ridiculous. so what if it passed, i want to know how it would perform against another shoe in a real world senario, how log it takes tor grind the inside is of no interest to a buyer. not that i not enjoyed the video, but with some tweaks to the test this could be fun and be of use to somebody who is considering buying it

For accident tests, there are 3 types, 1 you low side, 2 high side 3 people hitting you. For low side test for friction protection, high side for impact test, then when people hit you, impact and ridgdy. I had low side on my cheap $200 suit, 1 around 50mph, 2nd 65mph low side over a clift/car wheel down right side on a mountain. I say you need a tough boots, because my left foot got hit from my bike peg, hurt for 2 weeks, other than that sliding on my outer my left leg and left arm area. My cheap suit did it job very well,j say I can low side it again 3 more time. Cheap products or expensive, they are still have thick parts to protect you, even if you slide on a cheap helmet ,you still have to slide through outer plastic, the foam and the padding before I get to you skull. For normal day riding ,I go for cheap products, because all the accidents usually sliding. With more eye skill, flex skill you can either avoid t bone, hit from side by turning, or drop a gear and disappear. 1 once a suv cut my lane when j was land splitting then I quickly turn right, no turn signal were used. 2nd time I was on car pool lane a tesla suddenly turned to my lane ,I quickly turn left to the side of high way. Always looking cars around you, never yhey do crazy shit,or simply did see you

Hey Adam! We tested a bunch of gear when we were coming up with this series, and that's where our benchmarks come from. Unfortunately we were also figuring out our filming method at the time, so we don't have enough usable footage from those tests to make full episodes. You're also right in saying that we've got a bunch of vids sitting in the back room waiting to be released... Cheers! ~RF9

FortNine please message me if i can buy the pair that you sank in the water test. I cant afford a new pair. maybe you can give me an amazing discount. thank you. dream13x@gmail.com

You want them burnt, as well?

It busted during the ankle torsion test (golf club). ~RF9

We've done an expensive Shoei already... got another couple expensive helmets to come. ~RF9

We will. ~RF9

Yes it is. ~RF9

As a prop in your house sure

Jim B stfu

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