See picture of fried Power Cup rear above. Also tried Power One (precursor to Power Cup) and currently have a set of Power SuperSport mounted...but only have about 100 miles on them so too early to tell how they'll act when properly flogged.
Average about 1400 miles per set of DOT race rubber in street duty. Got a total of 1700 from the original set of Pirelli SuperCorsas, but that included 621 break-in miles per operator's manual instructions, so they're probably about equal for wear.
Front is a VA, rear is a C. The V is a nod to the speed rating (V, not Z) and not some sort of different profile as seems commonly misunderstood. The carcass of the VA or VB is stiffer than the standard A compound so it feels a bit more stable under hard braking to me. The trade-off is the lower speed rating, but I could give a rat's ass about top speed riding and I doubt my bike has ever been over 150 mph. I don't generally look at the speedo while riding.
The Michelins grip much better, but also have a much higher crown so the roll into the corner feels a bit more pronounced and it's more work (read "more fun") to get to the edge of the tire than with the Pirelli. Definitely a larger rolling radius, but no problems with TC set at level 3.
Willing to try Dunlops, and already have a set of Q3s ready to mount on the Super Sport this week, as the old Pilot single compounds are officially dead as of this weekend's Sunday ride.
Have fun experimenting with quality rubber. Hard to go wrong with any of these four (Power Supersport, Power Cup, Q3, or Supercorsa), I think.
