... you got a comparison b/t the following tires Speed?
- Metzler M4 (or whatever the current equivalent is)
- Michelin Macadam
- Dunlop Pilot Road
- Pirelli Diablo
The Pilot Road is made by Michelin and it's the replacement for the Macadam 100x series. I've ridden extensively on the 100x and thought it to be an excellent street tire with good grip, relatively quick warm up and really good handling in the wet. Laura put 9000 miles on a set of 100x with absolutely none of the cupping problem that was attributed to the Mac 90x and has since switched to the Pilot Road. They feel great, but I can't tell the difference between them and the Macs. The front has a different tread pattern and the Michelin propaganda says the Pilot Road has even better wet/cold handling and is supposed to wear more evenly.
I hated the MEZ 1 and 3 series (bad wet weather handling, and generally a bad front end feel) so I never tried the MEZ4s. I've talked to people who've had the MEZ4s and they echoed my complaints about the 1s and 3s.
After those, I swore off Metzelers, but I was convinced to try the Sportec M1s. That's a very good tire with excellent feel and traction and very good wet weather handing as supersport tires go. I also have them on my supermoto, so I've been able to push them beyond their traction limits and have found them to break loose very gently with lots of warning that you're spinning them up. That's kinda the Dunlop reputation with more of a Michelin tire profile.
The Pirelli Diablo is supposed to have very similar charictaristics to the Sportec. They're both made by Pirelli on the same casing, but the Diablo has a different tread pattern. They may have a different rubber compound too, or it could just be differing corporate lingo for the same thing. I've heard it both ways.
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