Road 6 or Road 6 GT

[TravisBickle]

Time for some new tyres!

I've always sworn by S22 in the past but everyone is raving about the Road 6 saying they're just as good as S22 in the dry, but better in the wet and harder wearing (the Diablo Rosso IV that came with my bike wore out in 3,000 miles and I wasn't overly impressed with the performance so any improvement on that will be a bonus).

I've read the only difference between the Road 6 and the Road 6 GT is an extra ply on the GT to handle heavier bikes.

So cost and ability to handle heavier bikes aside, are there any other differences?

Would going for the GT result in less dry or wet grip or handling/performance in any way, however small?

I assume being exactly the same trad pattern and, presumably the same compound, the grip would be identical? Or would the extra rigidity of the GT have an effect on the handling?

Going on a Multistroodle so not sure if the GT is necessary for the weight anyway, however if there any no drawbacks and only positives (i.e. harder wearing and/or possibly more puncture resistant?) I don't mind spending a few extra quid.
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[Pete.]

The v4 is only a few kg heavier than my r1100s which does just fine on the non-gt road 6
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[grr666]

Can't imagine switching away from S22's personally now I've had some. Standard fit on my bike from factory and
frankly I've been astounded by them. VASTLY superior to the road 5's I had on my MT09 when I sold it which slipped
on me in both wet and dry conditions enough for me to not trust them and feel like I had to nanny the bike round
bends a bit. I've had occasion to only ride in the wet the once on my MT10 on the day it had first service which I'd
booked weeks prior (or I would have left it in the shed) and even then they were confidence inspiring with only 450
running in miles on them. I'm probably going to buy a couple of sets and stick them in the shed until I need them which
at my rate of riding might be a while.
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[TravisBickle]

So I had the Road 6 GTs fitted (front and rear) the other day and almost immediately felt different.

Not in a good way.

Haven't had the opportunity to get some high speed cornering in on them yet but the slow to medium stuff just felt very stiff and heavy, like it was giving resistance turning. Compared to the Diablo Rosso IVs anyway. Just not very confidence inspiring. It just felt like a lot more input was required to get the bike to do what I wanted it to do whereas before I just thought, and it went.

Is this normal? Do the tyres just need to bed in or something? Or is this just totally to be expected going from Diablo Rosso IVs to Road 6 GTs?
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[to v or not to v]

try letting some pressure out of the front tyre.
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[Fizzer Thou]

Initially I fitted Pilot Road 3s to my FJ1200 for rides around the continent two up with luggage. They lasted 7,000 miles and wore strangely.

So for the 2019 ride around down to Italy I fitted a new PR3 front and a PR4-GT. There was an immediate feeling of how taught the rear felt from the stiffer sidewalls and not as much bump compliance as the previous PR3.But this has been in my favour as the PR4-GT looks hardly worn after 7,500 miles from the 2019 and this years rides down to Italy.The front PR3 has not worn anything like the previous front as well.Maybe this is down to the new YSS shock that I fitted
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[MarJay]

I heard road GTs lasted a long time but didn’t grip as well as just plain roads. The standard roads are already road oriented enough, I can’t imagine trading more grip for longevity to be honest…
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[Pete.]

I find the Roat 6 have plenty of grip.

What I have found is that the front lasts a lot longer than Road5/PR4. I ride quite heavy on the front and would wear out a front Road5 with the rear only 70% worn or so. Same with PR4. This set of Road 6 are worn a little more on the rear right now so I expect it'll be even stevens when it comes to changing them.
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[TravisBickle]

[to v or not to v]

its worth experimenting with the pressures. its surprising how much difference a couple of psi can make.
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[TravisBickle]

Evidently! I knew 36psi front and rear was optimal (recommended) but I really didn't think 5psi would make a noticable different to an intermediate rider like myself, thought that kinda stuff was more for trackday nuts. Clearly 5psi is more significant than I thought it would be.
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[MarJay]

[DJP]

I was a Michelin fan-boi for the longest time, going through pretty much every generation of PR.

The PR2 were a revelation compared to everything I'd had before: Excellent grip wet or dry and lasted nigh on 10k miles.

But the subsequent generations of PR never felt anything like as special and I think they've been left behind a bit these days.

My last set were a set of PR5s and they were OK. They were replaced, slightly unintentionally, by a set of Bridgestone 023s which I turned out to prefer.

By comparison, the PR5s felt squidgy or, in more technical terms, I could feel the sidewall flex. On the 023s I can't.

Ok, this is all probably irrelevant to the OP but in future I could well see me using newer gen Bridgestones in preference to the Michelins.

They're cheaper, like for like, too.
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[TravisBickle]

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[Old Git Racing]

Got a Street triple r that came with r6's on. Hated the feel, changed to S22's and it felt like a different bike. Much better when on the edge of the tyre. The r6's will be going on my 660 tiger sport when the r5's wear out.

OGR
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[jeffyjeff]

What!? A spreadsheet with 2 columns? Seems to me this thread is too narrowly focused for a spreadsheet to be of much help.
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[Kentol750]

Surely the bridgestone t32 is more comparable with the road 6?
Power would compare to the s22.

Oh, yes the bridgestone walls do seem to have less flex than others and can be a bugger to fit.
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[TravisBickle]

[TravisBickle]

I can't say there's a noticable difference between the handling and performance of the S22s compared to the Road 6.

I will say however the Road 6 seems to be wearing a lot better than my old S22s.
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[Kentol750]

I think youve nailed the major difference.... mileage!
The amount of time we get in the UK that super sticky tyres work at their best makes the more 'touring' option the sensible one.
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