Michelein Pilot Power 2 CT

Just got a pair of Pilot Power 2ct fitted to a 2003 curvy. AFAIK standard forks and shock.

When I bought my bike it had some really out of shape tires. The rear tyre had a 2inch wide flat spot which made the bike strange in corners. On low speed corners the bike would want to drop itself while on high speed the bike wouldn't turn.

Even though there was plenty of thread left on the old BT021 they were badly out of shape.

I do not commute and did not require ultra long life tyres. My first choice was just standard Powers or Pirelli supercorsa.

First impression:
Much more stable in mid corner and exit. Fast initial steering which i like In the wet have been fine on "Cruising speed" . At the moment just spending time unlearning the habits of driving on those out of shape tires and learning to trust these.

I will update this and see how long they last!

[Luckypants]

http://forums.sv650.org/showthread.php?t=148639

Just finished killing my rear tyre lasted about 5000 miles of out and out riding, tones left on the sides but middle is dead and cracking. Great tyre with lots of grip in wet and dry!

500km and still going good. No problems so far. Fairly decent in the wet too

Not sure how many miles its been but they're still going good.

Today I had quite an adventure on them. At a fairly quick pace i noticed the bike wasn't pulling as fast as she should. So i got off at the next exit. At the lights i noticed that i had a flat rear tyre, I dont mean soft I mean flat as catwalk model!

In desperation slowly made my way to the next petrol station what should have been a 5 min journey took me over 15mins at a forever 20mph. I had a good scare trying to turn her glad I gave the cars behind me plenty of signal that the bike was in trouble.

So at the station I found the source of the pain. Hole in the tyre. The hole was sharp and deep, not a little ****y puncture. With a can of red bull I waited then a nice taxi driver came over and gave me some good advice.

The plan was simple. Take a screw out of somewhere on the bike and use that to plug the hole so I could get to the bike shop about 10 mins away. If the big head of the screw would be ground back into the tyre every time it got rolled over... Genius

So I extracted a my screw plug for the rear indicators a few turns in the tyre, make sure its firmly stuck and Voila!

At the end I got the bike to the shop and got the tyre plugged I even managed to stick the screw back in the indicator too

Now I just hope i didn't ruin the tyre by running it flat. When tyres are flat they run really really hot

Only my opinion for what it is worth but any bike tyre that has been run a reasonable distance will sustain damage to the integral banding on the casing. I personally would not ride on such a tyre but if the garage repaired it it just may be that you have been lucky.
I am not saying that I would not ride on a plugged puncture repair but a tyre that has been ridden on flat is a different matter and my translation of your post is 20mins at 20 mph=5miles on a flat tyre