TCX R-S2 Evo Boots

I’m on the track probably four or five times a year: enough to make me feel like I’m proficient but seldom enough to make me realise a racer I ain’t. As a consequence, full-leather protective gear feels heavy and cumbersome to me. Kinda part-time Iron Man (the cartoon, not the tough beach bloke), I’m stiff and pretty uncomfortable. It all makes sense once aboard, though, because what remains the same, racer or not, is the result of a track based spill. Yeah, I like good gear.

- Greg Leech

So, to the subject of this little gear test, the TCX R-S2 EVO track boots. For starters, they certainly look New Age. I reckon boots can get a little fussy and there are features and exoskeleton-looking parts that abound here. I wondered at the possibility of form over function being the case but, after a couple of full days on the track in Spain and at Sydney Motorsport Park, it all made a lot more sense.