[TeeTee]

Out of curiosity, if you guys just go out for a ride and are only wearing your leather jacket and some jeans, do you still wear your riding boots?

Often or most of the time I will. It doesn't take much of an accident to throw you out of your shoes if they aren't boots. That's the single most common observation at accident scenes involving cyclists of all types or pedestrians is that their shoes are left behind at the impact site or thrown some distance away from the victim. Even when people are in cars it's not an uncommon thing to have their legs jerk hard enough that their shoes are left behind.

I just wear my jeans over the upper cuff of the boot so it doesn't look dorky.