August 2006

Spur Sets: What A Nifty Idea

For riders who have varying spur needs, interchangeable spur heads make perfect sense.

You can’t tell the spurs have interchangeable heads, with just a glance.

Riders can go all day wearing pretty much the same equipment—helmet, gloves, boots—without switching around. But spurs get changed from horse to horse and even for the same horse on different days or with different jobs, such as jumping, flat work and hacking out. The idea of a spur set—one spur body with several interchangeable heads—makes a lot of sense for a busy pro moving quickly between horses or even for the one-horse rider who occasionally needs to change spurs. …