So, i've had the Mitas fitted last week, but it's been difficuly to scrub them in properly as it's been nothing but wet and greasy here at the moment.

Off the rim the rear looks very squared, but once mounted it does round off a little but by road tyre standards remains sqaured off, the front looks rounded when loose but actually gets a little pointy once mounted.

The rear has 3 levels to it if you would like, and as the tyre wears these levels come into play, when it's new you just have nice chunky tread after roughly 5-10mm (not measured it) there is a centre line which would certainly help slow wear at that point, but still keeping most of the tread pattern, then there is another wider area after roughly the same distance which is much wider, i've not looked close enough to see if this would be the end of the tyres life depth wise but any off road handling would be scetchy by that point.

A interesting point i noticed, someone at work has some Hiedi K60's on his TTR and when parked next to each other the tread pattern is almost identical to the other (i wonder who's copied who).

My first outing was a cold frosty morning with the tyres on 0 miles, to be fair i did ride like miss daisy that morning with not knowing the tyres and the road being crap. but that evening they were better but still damp so i gave the bike a bit of a work out. I was impressed with the road handling on these tyres, they seem to stick well once they've warmed up a little, but i am noticing there's not much feedback compared to previous tyres but they still give you a idea of what is going on.

I'm finding these tyres are happier at high speeds 60mph+ than the Maxxis were, and road handling compared to them in general is far better. when on the brakes the tyres also behave very well, you can load up the front pretty heavily and they behave well, so far i'd say the road handling is very good. I've been running the tyres on the recommended 29/29.

I haven't tried off road yet as the one day i had chance i ended up ill so just stayed in, but hopefully by next week i will have had chance to go out and get them dirty.

Guys I deal with on the Triumph Tiger forum use them on their 800's and are getting 8000 miles + out of them the one has done a trip to Greece with plenty of off roading come back home and then gone down to Barcelona all on the same tyre and it still looked good but with wear like that grip is always going be a trade off.

well tonight before work i managed a quick punt down a local track, this is one of my fav tracks and today it was all wet sand/mud with a unusal amount of loose sand today. It was a inpromt ride so i was running road pressures (29/29), i was very dissappointed, the front behaved well without much problem but the rear was just awful. i'm going to go back again in a few days and i'll run a lower 26/26 and see how we do.

Well yesterday I hit my local tracks but also linked it with a gravel track that has rocks and a few mud sections. This time I dropped pressure 26/26. There was some improvement but I think theres more grip to be found. Next time I'll try 24/24. I think what isn't helping is the centre tread pattern with the thicker parts of tread that come into play as the tyre wears. I'll try to get a picture posted to show all this better.

With the crummy weather i was hoping to add a snow review but the best we could manage was a good slush. anyway the tyres trekked through, speeds were kept to 20-30, a few little twitches like it was going to slide but nothing ever came of it. I have a few long up hill sections to navigate when commuting and the rear held well on these, felt like it was wandering on occasions but never fully broke traction, but i was sat down, never actually got bad enough to consider standing. the tyres were running around 26/26 but i have not checked them for a few days and we have had a temp drop.

Ok slight update, we've had a light dusting of snow, enough to just make the roads crap but not deep enough for the tyres to really bite into. again no dramas and the tyre gripped pretty well considering.

ok i've now got round to working out how to post pics, here is the rear e07 that i have, you can see the different steps on the cnetre pattern now that i was explaining.

Ok so there's now 1k miles on the tyre now so i would say they are scrubbed in. Still not much off roading to report so this is more related to road riding.

Wear on the tyres is minimal, no obvious signs of the tread depth going down at the mo.

on the roads these tyres like normal pressure (29/29). there isn't a great deal of feed back even once the tyres get warm so you have to feel what the bike is doing as a whole but these seem to be very stiff tyres so that would go someway to explain it.

Grip on the tyres is good, i've only had one moment when hitting white lines on hard acceleration on a bend, but generally these tyres aren't to bothered by white lines and over banding.

on wet or grimey roads they behave themselves pretty well, just have to tone things down a bit as you normally would on any bike in those conditions.

SO far i'm pleased with the road manners, hopefully soon i can get a few more dirty miles on the bike and report back.

What is the lowest pressure other people use on these tyres? Once i've caught up on some running repairs i want to try get some more Green Lanes done.

I run a slightly wider EO7 on the back (140). It is an absolute pig to get on the bead, but well worth the effort. I find it far more predictable than the 130 wide EO7.

Just did 10,000 Kilometres on my last EO7 and it was thoroughly wrecked. The territory covered included sand, clay, mud, bitumen and long section of sharp edged rocks. It handled all equally well. I find the EO7 a far better choice on the Tenere than the EO9 Dakar, which I found to be highly unpredictable, and way too prone to letting go at the most inconvenient of times.

I have just replaced my Dunlop D908F RR (Rally raid) on the Front with a Pirelli Scorpion Rally. The 908 was also on the bike for 10,000K's and I loved it... The only reason for changing to Pirelli is that the 908 is currently in short supply and the Pirelli is readily available and highly recommended by friends whose opinions I trust.

I usually ride out with front and rear tyres set at 24 psi. I have a TPMS fitted to my bike and it is amazing just how quickly the pressures increase when the tyres are worked. Working hard on dirt on a warm day both tyres usually run around 28-30 psi.!!!. On tar they often go higher..!!

cheers for that suggestion, if i can get out this week i will give it a try.