What's your preferred driving shoe?
03-15-2010, 12:31 AM
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What's your preferred driving shoe?
This is a weird post but sombody has got to make it. I have trouble driving with dress shoes, running shoes, and boots. They always get caught on the carpet when I let go of the clutch. The only shoes I use now are pumas that look like racing shoes.
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03-15-2010, 01:11 AM
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I love my Doc martens. Combat boots suck. I have some speed cats, i like the Martens better. I can drive like hell in flip flops. I have actually autocrossed a few events in flops, until they said i needed closed toed shoes. Anything with a thick sole sucks because i cant feel the pedals.
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03-15-2010, 01:36 AM
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+1 for Pilotis. I have some older Reebok driving shoes that served me well for 4-5 autocross seasons, but they were too narrow to wear all the time. My Pilotis are much more comfortable.
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03-15-2010, 01:58 AM
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You can't guess where it is? Not a whole lot of room to guess wrong. I used to drive with thick sole steel toe work boots (size 13.5 takes up a LOT of room down there) and did OK most of the time. Every now and then my foot would catch on the brake pedal or something. It was equally fun in my RX7 with a stiff clutch pedal, somehow my toe would always get stuck behind the brake when letting the clutch up.
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03-15-2010, 02:27 AM
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I don't recall the OP bringing up precision driving. Of course then you would want something other than dress shoes or boots. I'm talking in terms of daily driving like 95% of the time is spent for most people here.
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I guess it just comes down to comfort in daily driving.
03-15-2010, 09:27 AM
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I have Puma Speedcats. Very nice to modulate brakes with.
Since they are trendy 'scenester' shoes you can usually pick them up cheap at urban clothing stores, mine were $40. Or even cheap karate shoes would work.
Since they are trendy 'scenester' shoes you can usually pick them up cheap at urban clothing stores, mine were $40. Or even cheap karate shoes would work.
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