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No boots keep the water out forever. Although around £200/275 seems to be the sweet spot between cheaper boots that say they are waterproof and achieving a half day of keeping the rain away. For multi day trips your feet will get wet, take spare socks/seal skinz/sandwich bags.
I got some falcon aventour (?) boots two years ago at launch date, think they were £160 (replaced a set of sidi courier that were 5 years old when i got them but finally fell apart), retail now is much higher than that.
They are ok! Keep water out for around 3 to 4 hours (frequent oiling required), stiff enough for mild offroad fun, dropped bike and other people have ridden into side of us a few times and my legs and ankles arent broken. After a month of constant use (courier) they were sofr enough for walking around in a normal amount for an mc boot with any protection, space for extra thick socks and plastic bags in winter, not so baggy as to be a problem in summer (on hot days run the top open). Got a vibram sole unit and non Newton ankle protection (not strong enough for proper offroad) and buckles are similar quality to the ancient sidi. Some folk have had the buckles break after short time, guess they just had bad ones.
Edit these are old now (got them in 2017 not used much the last year), New ones are called evo, only difference i can see is an extra ankle pad on inside and they lost the grippy mountain boot like vibram sole for an urban trainer looking no name sole, probably better for city use but try pushing a bike out of anything with thise smooth things!