Michelin’s new Road 6 and Road 6 GT tyres are the latest variants on a product run that started with the impressive Pilot Road tyre in 2002. Around this time, general-purpose road tyres started to gain sporting performance. Previously, the focus was on durability and wet road grip. In those days, bikes requiring sport performance required soft compound sport tyres with a life of a few thousand kilometres at best.
The Pilot Road was one of the first tyres to change that, being at
