haha....definitely had some lean angle in it when riding in the Smokies. My wife was on the back and, even with her feet up on those back pegs, we would drag the edges of her boots on the deck in some of the turns.

 @adm750: hahahaha, that’s awesome! She must be a trooper. My wife would be shitting, then hitting me!

 @Twenty6ers4life: haha, I hear ya man...

yeah, she was the best person to two-up with. She never flinched, even in some hairy shit. Had a big long slow front end slide in a low right speed turn riding home in the rain one day...so big that my arms went straight...and it kept pushing. Damned near a lane width. I was trying to bleed in some throttle and not take us down. The front finally grabbed and we finished the turn. I stood it up, still adding gas, right next to the paint on the f**king centerline. Damned near grazing the line of cars stopped at the light. She ever flinched. She flips her visor up to talk and says "holy shit...did you feel that..?" (feel what..? lol...!!)

Hydroplaning on backroad rides out to the coast when you'd get caught in those quick Fla rainstorms. Dragging her shoes in the mountains. Mountain passes in the rain. 6th gear WOT runs on those Fla backroads. F**k...she was down for anything.

 oh buddy, me too...!
My first two sets of tires were Bridgestone BT56SS's....the super soft compound Battlax. Damned solid sticky tire.
Then I switched to the Dunlops. I'd get pull-off soft compound track tires at a song from a few local guys. Not so great around town 'cause they were so soft. but get into the mountains and start carving, the bike literally felt like it was glued to the road.
Tried a set of Michelins but those bastards were sketchy when cold. You definitely had to have solid heat in them. Hot, they had incredible grip, but when they let go....man, they let go. Pretty unnerving for a front tire with a passenger on the back. The Dunlops would slide the front with no drama. With the Michelins, the front would go and you'd pucker so bad, you'd be wearing your a*shole as a headband

 @adm750: confidence in tires is REAL! Not going to list, but it’s extensive & outdated now lol. Had all of those at some point, Pirelli , Avon, Metz too!
Once I was happy with a tire, then I forgot about them and just got on with riding Never scrimped on tires, even now!

 @adm750: I used to have soft Dunlop slicks on my Supermoto from when I was racing it. They were like glue too, at the track after taking off the tire warmers. I kept them on though for street riding and commuting to work because I was too lazy to change them. They were like riding on ice when cold, so f*cking slippery until I got some heat into them. Sketchy and butt puckering, but luckily I never went down.

 @Twenty6ers4life: when I first picked up the bike, from a long time ex-roadracer friend of mine, it had a Michelin slick on the front. Back tire was a Michelin DOT race tire. He used to ride it around town like that (Kennesaw Georgia and north of that into upper Ga. and Tenn...) and actually get enough heat in the tires that it would work. Stated he ran the slick on the front for the grip he needed. Crazy bastard...and crazy fast. He moved to Robinsville, Tenn. and would go through 3 sets of tires a month on his '02 GSXR750.