Best Tires for the BMW R1200GS

Tire wear on a loaded GS with pillion around Portugal was frightening. Handles fine in wet and dry, but 2500miles tops and showing the cord, strangely enough on the side walls with the center with a little tread left. Basically the tire will not do a European tour in the windy roads. This is the worst tire for wear I have ever had, and won't be fitting another.

I've had Metzeler Tourance tires on all of my 1200GS bikes. They've held their own on the track, A-roads and B-roads in all weathers and I have never lost faith in their ability to give the desired grip when needed. I get between 6000-9000 miles out of a set.

This is my 4th set on 1200gs. And they have never disappointed me. Throw at the twiesties or gravel they will hamdle it, as long as you know what you doing. Will carry you over gravel easily. Road wise great dry grip when warm can put pannier down on bends. Great on went too

R1200 GS. Great on the road a bit noisy but I like to hear how the tire is working. On a trip to Scotland got a puncture from the rough pavement surface on Skye and a couple of days later a slow puncture from some stones on the road that got embedded in the tire. Not claiming to be a trail tire of any kind so fair enough but any of the 90 road/ 10 trail tires were significantly more substantial

Perfect tire for tarmac use. Also went on unpaved roads and light offroad which ruined the thread. Not for offroad use.

I drive all year and have over the years climbed through the ranks from nameless tires via Anakee II, to Pilot Road 4, to Road 5.
I loved the PR4 and believed the wined and dined reporters initial reviews that the Road 5 would be better. It is not!
If I am honest it is on par with the road driving capabilities of the Anakee II, which is not a touring road tire. But it claims to be, and it should be, better than the PR4. And therefor I can not state other than that this is the worst tire I have owned. I feel it struggle for grip in the dry, in the wet it is worse, it slides/ steps off all the seems and blemishes in the road, and it wears way quicker than promised. It is also the tire that made me slide on my **s in a slight drizzle coming off a roundabout (yes tires were warm, tires driven in for 1500km, smooth acceleration, being an all season driver for 10 years this was my first slide). After this I have been analysing the tire for about 5 months to give an honest review and not an angry rant. But in all fairness for the price and the quality it claims it should have, this is an awful tire. I would, and have, adviced people against buying it. And after this I will go either back to PR4 or Anakee III, but never to Road 5. Michelin, your Road 5 is bad and you should feel bad.

These were the OE tires on my R1200 GSA, very noisy (hence the poor comfort score) but quite hard wearing. I replaced them at 7,000 miles with plenty of life still left in them because I never really felt I could trust them. In the dry they lacked feedback, in the wet they felt very scary, on white lines in the wet very scary. Many riders have nicknamed the Anakee 'Panicky' because that's they feel. I replaced them with Michelin Pilot 4 Trail, a huge improvement in every area except life.

Best tire ever. In my 27 years I tried everything. Last I used were bridgeStone Battlax30, Metzeler roadtec Z8, Dunlop Sportmaxx III and Michelin PR4. Dunlops are sporty, Michelins are great in cold, but Roadtec 01 outperform both. Tire wear is also good, have to use HWM model on heavy bikes, so don't wine, if U use wrong tire on your bike and get bad results. Great handling, great wet grip, great feedback as it could be on RT with ESA, great comfort, great handling. I will buy and buy them again :)