Need to re-tire

My rear tire is shot, and its time for new skins. I am a street rider only, and not really aggressive. I don't need a track day tire for my normal use. I'm looking for something that's harder in the center, and softer on the sides.

I have really liked Michelin Pilot Power pure's, but they are no longer available. Since then I have run Pilot Power 3's and I've been very happy as well. Sadly, the Pilot Power 3's are not available in 200/55... :-( I'm considering getting a set of the Michelin Power supersport evo, but they may be more tire than I need. Have any of you run them?

Thanks

Tony

The Bridgestone S21 is a great street tire for the Panigale. It comes in 200/55 and has all the grip you need on the road, plus the multi-compound you're looking for with the harder rear center strip for longer rear tire life while trundling around on straight roads. Plus there's a $50 rebate on them now so you can get 'em dirt cheap if that matters. Around $200-$210 a set after rebate.

FWIW, I tried a set of Power 3's as my off-season tires and took them off before they were 1/2 done. OK as sport touring tires, but nowhere near the grip or feel of the other tires I'd been running on my bikes. In addition to the brief stint on the Power 3's, I've run the OEM Pirellis, Q3's, RS10's, S20's and S21's, and the S21's are the best bang for the buck street tires of the lot. I think Michelin has moved the Power 3 a bit more into the sport touring realm and the Power Supersort's are a more comparable tire to the others mentioned above.

Depends on where and how you ride of course, and if you didn't have grip complaints with the Power 3's then you might consider Pirelli Diablo Rosso 3's, B'stone T30's, etc. I live in the mountains, so grip trumps wear here more than it would somewhere with only flat and straightish roads like FL.

Ive never head that the power 3's would be considered a sport touring tire. Are you possibly meaning pilot "road" 3's? They are the all season touring tire as far as I know, and have been replaced with road 4.

Thanks for the input on the others,

Tony

I didn't mean to imply that Michelin is advertising them as such, just that since the introduction of the Power Supersports, I think they've repositioned the Power 3 away from an occasional track use tire and more towards the sport touring end of the spectrum now that they have the more aggressive tire in the product lineup. Basically, the Power 3's have been given a harder, longer-wearing compound and are biased more towards tread life and wet weather use than the earlier Power series tires were prior to the Supersports' introduction.

I have experience of the older Pilot Power series tires on some of my other bikes, and was surprised to find the Power 3's had so much less grip than I've been accustomed to of late. Possible I may have gotten a bad set, but I doubt it. I also noticed the rear blueing and wear hardening, plus the slight ridge between the compound strips developing on the rear like many have noticed. They slid and spun up more than any other sportbike tire I've used in the last few years.

Pirelli Diablo Rosso Corsa... Harder center compound, warm up fast, great edge grip on the softer side compound....