Motorcycle tyres

[jimmy 1973]

Hi there, Up for a new rear tyre on my vtr 1000.Looking at getting a Michelin pilot road 2 Tyre. Would like to know if any one out there has had one ? What do you think of them, how many k's did you get out of them. Also seen a Dunlop Road Smart which has just come out. Both tyres are dual compound and are all new to me .

[jimmy 1973]

Hi there, Up for a new rear tyre on my vtr 1000.Looking at getting a Michelin pilot road 2 Tyre. Would like to know if any one out there has had one ? What do you think of them, how many k's did you get out of them. Also seen a Dunlop Road Smart which has just come out. Both tyres are dual compound and are all new to me .


Just got my new Michelin Road Pilot 2 for my bike. 180 /55 / 17.$ 300.00 fitted to bike, which i thought was pretty cheap. Good tread patten for those rainy days. I do hope i can get more than 7000 klm out of it. I have herd a story that you can wear out the sides of the tyre before the middle. Just have to wait and see about that.

[Toddler78]

I used to run pilots, on the road, for every day normal carmuting I dont think they are a bad tyre.
But also raced on one set and once youve pushed them they would get soft and it would feel like you had a half deflated tyre. Also what I found that they didnt give good grip feed back, ie you could continue to push the bike into corners time and time again and have to feeling of losing grip, then go through again and completly lose the front or rear end with out any warning(obviously this is in a race)
The dunlops on the other hand were a nice tyre to race on, I never ran one on the road, but you had excellent grip feed back, you knew when the tyre was going off as it would start to sqirm and you knew you needed to back it off.
This is giving my account from a racing pepective and obviously you wouldnt be pushing a bike anywhere near the limits on the road as you do on the track. And I know that all tyre manufacturers have come along leaps and bounds in grip levels since last I raced (about 4years ago)

my personal preference would be the dunlop.

[BlownVR]

I've got a Pilot Road 2 on the back of my old R1. In the past I've always worn out the centre of the rear tyre long before the sides (too much riding on straight roads, not enough in the twisties...) so decided a dual compound was the way to go on the rear this time. Too early to tell how many km it will last for, but seems to stick quite well for my purposes. My new R1 has Pilot Powers on it and I can't really say I noticed much difference in grip levels. The sides of the Road 2 are supposedly as soft as the Power so that is no surprise. Mind you I don't leave black lines out of corners so I'm not pushing hard enough to test the limits.