Bananas and motorbike boots…

Bananas and motorbike boots…

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Britzilian89

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93 posts

46 months

Friday 12th July
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Ola All

As we have all have come to find out, anyone doing motorbike trips this year is likely being impacted by a bit of rain here or there.

Same happened to us on a trip to Luxemburg last weekend.

The usual items dried quickly and easily overnight thanks to radiators, using towels etc - ie helmets, jackets, helmet and so on


Wet BOOTS
My old Daytonas kept my right foot dry, but my left foot was in a swimming pool by end of day.

I vaguely remembered a BBB budget bike battle video where Chris put a banana in his boot and said next day it was dry. I called “bs” at the time but thought to myself, I need to do something let’s try it.

Desperate for a solution as my left boot was drenched, overnight I tried sticking a banana in there and…

Unbelievably to me, the banana came out of the boot looking fairly similar to how it went in (was a bit smelly) but the most important part of this story - the boot was dry again and no smell.

Sure it wasn’t “desert” dry, but my god it was ~80% better and I was ecstatic.


CONCLUSION
Wet boot during your motorbike trip? Stick a unpeeled banana in there and you’ll see what I mean.


There you are, you learn something new everyday.


Super Sonic

7,282 posts

61 months

Friday 12th July
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Did you put the banana back in the fruit bowl?

anonymous-user

61 months

Friday 12th July
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You dont want to know where that banana ended up whistle

Super Sonic

7,282 posts

61 months

Friday 12th July
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The usual pH reply is 'pix or it didn't happen' but in this case maybe not!

Donbot

4,123 posts

134 months

Friday 12th July
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OP is on a wind up. Boot bananas are a product

Exasperated

453 posts

18 months

Friday 12th July
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Donbot said:
OP is on a wind up. Boot bananas are a product
Indeed. I use the giant ones for my boots.


Factualist

2,217 posts

168 months

Friday 12th July
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For any wet shoes I have, rolled up paper balls copies of MCN (other news papers also good) in the shoe and dry the next day.

Hugo Stiglitz

38,038 posts

218 months

Friday 12th July
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Killboy said:
You dont want to know where that banana ended up whistle
laugh

Triaguar

889 posts

220 months

Friday 12th July
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Must admit you nearly had me

Britzilian89

Original Poster:

93 posts

46 months

Friday 12th July
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Super Sonic said:
Did you put the banana back in the fruit bowl?
I was tempted yes… but the new smell of the banana would have given it away. Boot was dry and no longer smelled… thanks to banana POWARRRRR

Britzilian89

Original Poster:

93 posts

46 months

Friday 12th July
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Factualist said:
For any wet shoes I have, rolled up paper balls copies of MCN (other news papers also good) in the shoe and dry the next day.
Bananas are best…

caley64

124 posts

229 months

Saturday 13th July
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