So its time to review the Pirelli MT60s.
I put them on my Tenere in the beginning of May in northern Thailand and I am on a long overlanding tour and currently in Sulawesi - Indonesia.
The MT60s has now run approx 12500 km and the rear will run max 3-4 k km more. They have been used on paved roads 98 % from northern Thailand to southern Thailand and a good lop around Malaysia and then the rest in Indonesia. The Thai and Malay roads I rode are paved and relatively good, but a lot of the paved roads here in Indonesia are quite rough stuff, worn and patchy and in general often in quite bad shape. I have done few detours into mountain gravel roads and paths too, but not a lot.
To sum it up - these are the best tyres I have had on the Tenere! They have been perfect for my use. They grip well on the roads I have been riding, they feel smooth, no noise and its so easy to throw the bike into corners with a lean angle with confidence. Very very different feel than for example Heidenau. I almost feel like V. Rossi when I am approaching a steep corner....
and I am sure the Tenere has been almost leaned as many degrees as the superbikes are through corners. Might be a degree or two less....
They wont last as long as my previous tyres except for the Heidenaus that cracked up after 12 k kms but will give me around 15 k kms.
A bummer though that my tyre dealer in Indonesia cant deliver a new set of MT60s. The next set of tyres on my Ten is going to be Shinko 705. Exited to see what those are like...