“If it looks grippy, it probably is.” A sentence that’s probably been uttered thousands of times when the conversation turns to motorcycle tyres and, after sampling the latest incarnation of Pirelli’s Diablo Supercorsa hoops, I can now add to the chorus: the tyres look like sticky merchants, and they damn well are!
The release of the Diablo Supercorsa V4 range now completes the fourth-generation of Pirelli’s road-based hypersport family, which also includes the Diablo Rosso (‘the sporty tyre for the road’) and Diablo Rosso Corsa (‘the fiercer version of the Diablo Rosso’).
It was apt that AMCN ventured to the Phillip Island Grand Prix Circuit to sample the new product, just a day after defending champion
