I'll run them through the fall, but come spring and a new riding season, I'll have new tires front and rear. My front tire is in good shape, but the rear has flattened out, and I can feel it in corners now. That said, I found Pirelli Angel GT's and Dunlop RoadSmart III's to be superior to the Michelin's in terms of keeping their shape by wearing evenly around the diameter of the tire. They feel as good as a the Michelin Pilot 17 in radial's that I used to run on my Guzzi and SV. Compared to the Pilot Activ, they are yet another step up the ladder of performance in corners and in the wet. I put on a set of new Michelin Road Classic tires, which now have about 4500 miles on them. On the bikes that they gave out to the moto-journalists, I'm sure they swapped out the OE junk for the genuine article Italian Phantoms. It's astonishing how much of a difference it made, and I'm frankly shocked at how awful the OEM Pirelli's were. That said, the Pilot Activ's were transformative to the handling of the bike, and make it feel much more planted and stable in the corners and also going in a straight line. On that same trip, my riding buddy on his Thruxton R toasted his brand new Pirelli Rosso Corso rear tire to the point of being completely done. I didn't want to have to hunt for a new tire while I was down there. I swapped out the Pilot Activ's at 3000 miles because I was heading south for 10 days and 3000 miles into the mountains of the south east US where the roads are super abrasive.
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