Smelly Boots

[kgm]

So the other day I rode through a long puddle (off road) that a stick told me was just under a foot deep. Turns out there was a hidden trench further along that was much, much deeper. Almost bike drowning deep. I made it through (just!) but my nice TCX goretex boots ended up full of water from it coming in the top.

I thought I'd dried them out but obviously missed a little dampness as one of them is now absolutely howling.

Any tips for getting rid of the smell? Chucked some cat litter in a sock to see how that goes.

Cheers.

[Ice Burger]

I've got a couple of suggestions for you, I've had to deal with this kind of situation with smelly sailing gear.

The boots are are probably dried out enough, the smell is from remaining bacteria that's gathered in the lining.

1st suggestion would be fill up the bath tub with soapy water and sink the boots in the water, make sure to squeeze and shake out all the nasty swamp residue.

2nd suggestion would be grab a febreze bottle and attack the insides vagariously, I've used it to get rid of other smells before and it's fairly effective stuff. Tesco supermarkets usually stock a heavy duty version with extra odour elimination.

3rd isn't that effective but I've found it helps a little bit. Wait for a sunny day, leave them outside to scorch and cook off the smell, some of the bacteria will die in the heat.

[hellkat]

You could do worse than try white vinegar.

I used it once when I had some kittens who had peed behind the sofa, instead of in the littertray and it started to smell of cat pee, so I spritzed vinegar around the whole living room.

It smelled like a chip shop for about half an hour, but within the hour not only had the smell of the vinegar gone, but so had the smell of kitten pee.

You could try getting one of those spritzer bottles and using it to apply white vinegar to the inside of your boots, then leave them out to dry in the sunshine.
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[A100man]

[Riejufixing]

[hellkat]

[BTTD]

Diluted Dettol will kill all the bacteria and disinfect the boot. I have done that with gloves that went the same way and the smell was completely removed.
I'd trust that with Goretex more than white vinegar.

[kgm]

Cheers folks I'll give some of that a bash 👍

[MCN]

[BTTD]

If wet boots look like they might be a regular issue, you could diy a boot dryer.

https://mtnranks.com/blogs/mtnranks-blog/mtn-remedies-diy-boot-dryer

There are loads of examples on youtube as well.

[ThunderGuts]

[iooi]

Zoflora Multi-Purpose Concentrated Antibacterial Disinfectant
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