Most Indian brands seem to advertise EN 20345 rated boots as motorcycling boots. This standard is actually for safety shoes and is not exactly suited for motorcycling
BHPian advstreak recently shared this with other enthusiasts:
Going through this article and quoting verbatim “Footwear in accordance with EN ISO 20345 is intended to protect the wearer from bumps, crushing, falling or rolling objects, from walking into sharp or pointed objects, heat or cold, and hot substances.”
Now EN 20345 has various protection requirements which are divided into various protection levels. The requirements that might have some mechanical significance are the protective toe cap, fully enclosed heel, Energy absorption under the heel and puncture protection. To classify a boot as EN 20345 certified it just needs to pass impact resistance of toecaps at 200 Joule and get the SB class. I am pretty sure that brands marketing the boots as EN 20345 CE rated only have SB level.
EN 13634 is explained quite well here:
Using the Leatt 4.5 owners as quick reference for the values for various levels.
As one can see, EN 13634 is much more suited for motorcycling use case. It does miss out on making the impact protection compulsory but it is covered under the optional test.
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