[Ed K]

 

[Matt]

Hi everyone, just done about 100kms on a new pair of Road 6's replacing Pirelli Diablo Rosso III's with 11K kms.

Context is as follows:

• Urban riding on traffic-infested roads in pretty poor condition but dry in this case (Sydney, Australia)
• Pointing and shooting for the gaps in the traffic, lower speed sharper turns and corners
• Traffic filtering over lines/bumps/cats-eyes etc
• Rider is intermediate skill level - occational beginner-level track days
• Didn't really baby the tyres for more than 10kms despite the sticker fitted by the workshop ;-)
• Assumption that all new tyres feel better than old ones....and recognition that 100kms is not too much experience!!!

That being said, impressions so far:

• Really excited about the change to the Road 6's
• More comfortable, more flexible, more compliant
• More stable and forgiving over poor, uneven or broken surfaces
• Much lower propensity to track imperfections in the road ('tramlining')
• Way more confident grippier slow speed high lean angle turning (car parks, U-turns, dust/gravel)
• Very neutral turn-in - neither tips you in, nor requires you to shove it
• No experience of high-speed sweeping turns or track performance (presumably this is the trade-off?) or wet weather performance (presumably very good?)

I was torn between these and the Rosso IV's, but I am now feeling pretty comfotrable that the Road 6's are better given the realities of my use case.

 

[NothingClever]

Nice post.

I love that new tire feeling.

Hard to get bad tires these days, huh?

I like Michelin’s softer compound and the siping and voids on the R6 look good.