Michelin Pilot Road 3

[Swoop]

Another vote for the PR2's.
Bloody good tyres, wet or dry.

It will be interesting to see what people think of the PR3's as they appear to be more for wet road riding with the sipes.

[dogsnbikes]

Can certainly say it was worth the wait too get the PR3's on the Daytona,and over 800k's over some of the Central north Islands twistist roads,they have been superb...I have found them too be alot smoother than the PR2 even 2up, The missus made the comment that the bike is smoother through the corners ...so am looking forward too next week when we will be fully loaded

[p.dath]

I don't know much about tyres, but I recently went to PR3's front and back (previously had Diablo Stradas - more of a touring tyre), and what a huge difference.

I almost fell into my first corner, they turned in so much faster (the profile of the PR3 suites me much better than the old tyres).

And more than like it is simply a mental state - but for some reason I feel more trusting of the PR3's. They feel really good.

[Banditbandit]

Powers are softer and better for the track, but I'm mainly a long distance rider and never had a Pilot Road 2 give me less than 17 000km on a rear tyre, and that was on a tyre I had 3 track days on and 5000km on the south island and heaps of commuting. The powers I get about 13 - 14 thousand Kms out of , but I run out of thread in the middle, where as the road 2 I wear them out on the sides. Complements to the harder middle section of the road 2 for commuting and hard acceleration , never had one square out on me.

Jeez - I killed a PR2 rear on my 650 Bandit in 5,000klicks ...

I have them on my 1250 - and don't bother to keep track of milage. But I don't throw the 1250 around like the 650 .. and do get higher milage ... I do long distance on the 1250 and the PR2s are great. The 650 I throw around and have Conti Road Attacks (bugger all milage out of one but a really fun tyre.)

[Banditbandit]

I don't know much about tyres, but I recently went to PR3's front and back (previously had Diablo Stradas - more of a touring tyre), and what a huge difference.

I almost fell into my first corner, they turned in so much faster (the profile of the PR3 suites me much better than the old tyres).

And more than like it is simply a mental state - but for some reason I feel more trusting of the PR3's. They feel really good.

I had a similar experience on my 650 ... but I found the Conti Road Attacks even better than the Michelin (PR2s) or Pirrelli.

[NZsarge]

Can certainly say it was worth the wait too get the PR3's on the Daytona,and over 800k's over some of the Central north Islands twistist roads,they have been superb...I have found them too be alot smoother than the PR2 even 2up, The missus made the comment that the bike is smoother through the corners ...so am looking forward too next week when we will be fully loaded

Would have put a Road 3 on the back this time but there aren't any 190/55's in the country and they couldn't tell me when they'd be available so I went with a 55 profile Road 2 on the rear and a Power Pure on the front, not a bad combo actually.

[dogsnbikes]

Would have put a Road 3 on the back this time but there aren't any 190/55's in the country and they couldn't tell me when they'd be available so I went with a 55 profile Road 2 on the rear and a Power Pure on the front, not a bad combo actually.

I had a bridgestone on the rear to tye me over until the 190/50 arrived,but at least I knew it would be middle of April before they would be landed even though the 180/55 was already here,and that was in March

[bastardsquad]

+1 for the durability and handling of the PR2's. On the ER6n rear is @14,000km with an estimated 3-5000km left -just(only just) starting to show signs of squaring off. Front looks barely worn. Both stick like the proverbial to a blanket. I wore out a Bridgestone rear in 8,000(front 12,000) km on my 250...i'll be replacing my PR2's with PR2's for sure.