I have the setup vision boots and I like them a lot. not squeaky at all, and if you get black you can wear them w/ jeans & stuff and not look too goofey.
they boast the same/similar protection to sidi, but without all teh bells and whistles.
my foot got mangled under my bike in my last crash. if I had been wearing sneakers it most certainly would have been crushed. that ankle protector was pretty banged up, but did not crack or anything. the leather between the anlkle protector and shin took big hit I guess and there is a small hole. I limped away with a bad sprain and a huge, purple foot. lemme dig up the picture....
the biggest impact to my boot and foot is marked here, but it looks like even the expensive sidis dont have any hard protection there. man that hurt....
here is my foot 5 days afterwards. hard to tell but my toes were all purple too. it is all sorts of funky colors now...
