Tyre recommendation - more stability please

[Hooli]

supersingle said:

Some of these tyre recommendations are dual compound tyres. I don't know about anyone else but I find they take on odd profiles as they wear.

Single compound tyres wear more predictably without any weird steps on the profile.

Not seen issues like that since I stopped using BT021s, except for when I've had dodgy head bearings.

[Speed addicted]

I had Michelin PR3s and now PR4s on the VFR. I don't see the point of fitting sportier tyres for the riding I do.
They warm up quickly, grip well in the dry and wet (amazingly in the wet) and take a hile to wear out.
I've ridden on everything from tiny highland single track roads to 160mph autobahns with no issues.
So I'd fit them.

[Captain Muppet]

For completeness: I bought a pair of Michelin Pilot Road 2 and the ZX7R is lovely again. I can ride over broken tarmac/white lines/pebbles without the weird nervous wiggling it used to have, and when cornering it'll seems happy regardless of lean angle - whatever I want to do is fine.

I've stopped worrying about what the bike is doing, or what it's going to do on the next camber/corner/surface change. It still drops in to corners with no effort, so there seems to be no downside (at the pace I ride on the road at least).

StuB said:

Have you tried a Piaggio 3 wheeler thing?

God no. I had enough of people pointing and laughing when I had a green, yellow, white and red MX5.