Chase your dream
The whole fabrication background goes back to teaching myself how to repair and modify all of my military tactical gear (US Army retired). So I purchased a heavy duty sewing machine and learned all the ins and outs of heavy duty sewing, ballistic nylon, HD thread and webbing.
I soon began to make items for my friends, fix equestrian gear and tack and motorcycle off-road items....and out of all these was the BootGrabber.
Why the ‘BootGrabber’? Dirt bike boots, it seems at times, have a mind of their own:
• They always get separated (in the garage, in the truck/trailer) and you were always looking for ‘the other boot’
• If they were in the back of the truck and it rained going to or coming home from the track, the got soaked inside and wet cold boots at the start of a ride in is NOT fun. Or the joy of realizing that on the way home from your last ride a bunch of mud dropped off your bike and into your boot and has now dried into a solid CLOD, that your toes discover as you in a rush, jam your foot into your boot to go ride (don’t ask me how I know this) – yes special words if the kids aren’t around
• Load your boots into your trailer and they always get separated during transport. Then you are kicking them around while you unload or one of them ‘hides’ under something and pretty soon you are POSITIVE you left a boot at home (another – don’t ask)
• Go riding with a few friends or your kids, then you get to multiply all the ‘wandering and hiding’ boot issues times 10! Earlier in my life I was blessed with the whole family riding off-road, so the joys of getting 6 sets of boots and their gear collected and organized …… well it’s a blessing that has to be experienced.
So, after a year plus of extensive prototype development and testing (impossible without my amazing riding and racing friends in the Pacific Northwest), the ‘BootGrabber’ is here.