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Michelin Pilot Power 2CT Owner Reviews

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What owners say summarised from 17 reviews

Dry grip is the clearest strength of the Michelin Pilot Power 2CT, with eleven favorable mentions against one criticism, often with the qualification that the tire needs to be warm. Four owners praise steering feel, while wet grip is more divided, with five positive accounts and three complaints. Cold grip and abrupt behavior near the limit each concern three owners, around one in five, so these are recurring minority reservations. Mid-life and end-of-life accounts include satisfactory wear and retained confidence, but there are no later reviews from the same owners to establish a shared ageing pattern. Across seventeen reviews, the 70.1% average reflects eleven positive scores, four neutral and two below 40%.

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Owner ratings averaged from 18 ratings

  • Owner score 76%
  • Dry Grip 86%
  • Comfort 82%
  • Road Feedback 81%
  • Wear 76%
  • Wet Grip 66%
  • Handling 65%

Michelin Pilot Power 2CT Reviews - Page 2

Score spread across 15 written reviews
90%
Member
  • Yamaha R1
  • 225/45 R17
  • 1,500 miles
  • Mostly Country Roads
  • Spirited
A brilliant tire, rarely used in the wet, but the dry grip is phonominal, massive lean angle and knee down grip, front end lets you know when your pushing too hard before it lets go! I have had these tire's on since last summer and the center line is still round and loads left. I wont even bother looking elseware for tire's I'm going for the 2ct again next year!!
This owner's scores
  • Dry Grip 10
  • Wet Grip 8
  • Road Feedback 8
  • Handling 9
  • Wear 9
  • Comfort 9
  • Buy again 10
Helpful 687
86%
Member
Originally running some dreadful Dunlops on my Ducati fitted by p/o, and after a few moments on Dunlops (frankly the most dreadful tires I have ever used, on car and 2 bikes) it get to a point where I refused to even ride the bike with Dunlops, which left me deciding what tires, BT023 but I couldn't get any so fitted the PP2CT, the difference is night and day.

Bad points
Progessivenees- they are either on or off, there is no middle ground
Cold- they are ok, and heat up quick enough
Cold with damp conditions- take longer to heat up but they are ok, I wouldn't commute on them through town as the tire just will not get warm enough to be of benefit to you.

Good points
When they are on they grip and grip and grip
Drop in is instant
Good amount of confidence from them in the corners, you start to go wrong on a corner, and the tires really let you shift the bike around.
Rain riding is good, channels which go to edge of the tire
Retain heat when stopped
Lean angles are awesome

Really good performance summer tire, not brilliant for commuting as it does need to get hot, really soft compound even when cold you can squish the rubber with your finger.
This owner's scores
  • Dry Grip 10
  • Wet Grip 8
  • Road Feedback 9
  • Handling 6
  • Wear 10
  • Comfort 7
  • Buy again 10
Helpful 712
97%
Member
awesome tire, great on track and road and awwesome lean angles. would deffo buy again
This owner's scores
  • Dry Grip 10
  • Wet Grip 8
  • Road Feedback 10
  • Handling 10
  • Wear 10
  • Comfort 10
  • Buy again 10
Helpful 722

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70%
Member
I've had the Hornet since June last year, the standard tires for it are bridgestones apparently, but mine was fitted with 2CTs when I picked her up. Not used any other tire, but riding in the wet feels little different from the dry when commuting.

On track they stood up to a fair amount of abuse.

On the 1st set I got about 7k miles out of them (I was a new rider at the time) the 2nd and 3rd sets both got punctures within 600 miles or so :(

I'm thinking of trying the Avon Viper Extremes next to see how they compare.
This owner's scores
  • Dry Grip 9
  • Wet Grip 8
  • Wear 4
  • Comfort 7
  • Buy again 8
Helpful 586
69%
Member
I've used the Pilot Power 2CT's on the road and on the track.
Moving from the BT014's to these transformed the handling of my 600 by giving me so much more confidence in the front end. Fast direction changes were handled with ease and they made you feel like you could really crank the bike over and still have plenty of grip left over.
On track is a different story, although all of the above still applies its the progressiveness that lets them down, you really will not know when your nearing the tires limit until it's too late and the back end wants to play a different game.

Tire wear, i would get about 4000 miles out of a rear and double that on the front.

Using them in the wet never gave me any issues on the road or on track, but then i didn't push them too hard
This owner's scores
  • Dry Grip 8
  • Wet Grip 7
  • Road Feedback 8
  • Handling 4
  • Wear 7
  • Comfort 7
  • Buy again 7
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