So I’m here to do a review of the Pirelli mt 6 t RS [] so you’ll hear me talk a lot when I compare this to a street tire like the s20 and that’s why I brought this here so this is an example of what you would normally see on a supermoto and you don’t normally see people running stuff like this and I’m gonna explain to you the pros and the cons of all of it so first of all let’s talk about what is the Pirelli MT 60 or well as I mentioned before it’s a bit of a scrambler tire so it was designed for your triumph scrambler your Ducati scrambler these bikes that are primarily street bikes but people take them on gravel roads and things like that and that’s how I used this bike I primarily ride it on the street but I like to go off-road some light off-road adventure riding if you will and these tyres just left me wanting I lost the front a couple of times in the dirt I worried about not being able to get up steep steep hills and off-road in Taiwan there’s always steep hills so I figured get me just a little something so my goal was not sacrifice very much if anything in the corners to give myself some better off-road traction something for gravel roads off-road 4×4 tracks basic stuff I’m not going to be doing hard enduro or anything like that so I did some research and these seem to be a good option and let me tell you right away they have exceeded my expectations so first impressions when I first started riding them I felt that little wall wall wall wall well at low speeds that you get from a knobby that you know I can feel okay I’m on a knobby and so I was cautious I broke it in slowly and then when I started getting into the turns I was very cautious because I didn’t know what kind of grip they would have but I’ve been pleasantly surprised I’ve ridden it about 800 kilometers of a bit of everything some some dirt some mud some lots of lots of road riding and I have to say I’m hugely impressed there they’re almost magical they really are I wanted to not give up road performance and I haven’t I’ve leaned it over – and I actually have we’re on the last tread block here I and and they didn’t squirm around they didn’t move around they weren’t scary I used a lot of throttle coming out of turns and I didn’t feel the back moving

I didn’t feel it sliding around and so I’m hugely impressed with its on-road capability just when you look at it it’s got these big grooves and so it has to have less surface area on the road than this tire but you would not know it I pushed that tire just as hard as I would push this tire and I did not notice a difference now one caveat it’s January January 1 right now so the air is cool it we’re in Taiwan so we’re not it’s not cold but in the heat of the summer it’s possible that these could overheat I don’t know that yet this tire I’ve had you know up to temperature where the little the little balls are coming off of it you how the rubber it falls up and it starts coming off and in those conditions I’m not sure how well this tire is gonna hold up so my second goal was to get some off-road traction and I I got it I wrote it in 4×4 tracks rocks single track and a little bit of mud and I have to say it’s these tires are impressive I was able to climb anything I wanted to climb and the the limitations or more have to do with the bike the street suspension the gearing and most importantly my lack of skill offroad and it really doesn’t come down to these tires that being said it’s not a knob and you know it when you coming out of those turns this is a 500cc it’s putting down 50 horsepower to the back tire and you don’t get above a half it’s Ronal I mean realistically it’s like a quarter throttle and the back sliding around and stuff and and that’s fine it’s fun and that’s not to imply that the tires don’t have much traction but no they’re not a knobby for sure I have to say the one area that I felt like it was not as strong as others for sure would be the mud I didn’t even get into so much mud that it would be caked in in the grooves and it was already pretty slick the weakness of this tyre is definitely the mud it’s a it’s a wide tire it’s a street tire the rear is a 160 and the front is 120 so it tends to float across the top of the mud where when you’re dealing with mud you would you would want a motocross tire with the they’re really spiky nabis that would cut down through the mud something narrow that would just cut in and give you traction underneath the mud and this is going to do the opposite but it is what it is it is an 80/20 or a 70/30 tire it’s not a hundred percent off-road tire for sure but on the rocky trails I was able to keep up with my friend who had proper nabis and the bike was happy the tires were happy I was happy it was it was hugely fun at first I was very tentative and and I would have to say I’m still very tentative to touch this front brake because as you can see it’s a massive 320 disc with a four piston Brembo it will stand this bike on its nose on the street and it’s got so much bite that it wants to lock the front so I mainly used a rear brake and it slowed me down pretty well but I started coming down some hills I started using one finger on the front brake and it didn’t it didn’t wash out immediately like I was afraid that it would it did offer some slowing in action and I didn’t lean the bike that far but I could I could you know standing coming out of the turn load the outside peg and give it some throttle at the back move around and I could trust that the front was gonna stay there it wasn’t gonna shoot out from under me so all in all I’m really happy with the tyre so I don’t know what sort of mileage I’m going to get out of it.

On the internet people complain that they don’t last very long but you have to realize they’re comparing it to the the trail techs the the Continental trail attacks these are adventure tires that last 20,000 kilometers and this this s 20 here in the front this is my first front so I don’t know but the rear last 4,000 kilometers and generally the front last double that so I would expect to get about 8,000 kilometers out of the front and four out of the rear so compared to that we’ll see I don’t think it’s going to be worse so the one downside that I could say to these tires is the cost they are expensive on us dollars here the front is 200 us and the rear is like 260 so in Taiwanese dollars that’s six thousand in the front 8,000 in the rear and that’s an expensive tire to me that’s a lot of money when these are I get a set of these for like nine thousand NT which is like two hundred nine thousand it’s like just under three hundred dollars like two hundred and eighty dollars u.s.

for or two one of these tires is almost that much so Pirellis tend to be expensive if you want to run out and buy some some Pirelli super courses Michelin’s are also expensive you want to go out and buy a set of Michelin’s the there any of their terrain tires you’re gonna spin this much so it’s a premium tire and so it should be really good and it is it lives up to the expectations.

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