Pirelli Diablo Rosso IV Corsa: Top summertime rubber Like the Super Corsa SPs they showed little signs of wear when I changed them for their direct rival: Dunlop’s SportSmart TT. If you ride a sports bike, superbike or sporty naked and you like to let your hair down, these are perfect. They were always stable, had lots of grip in the wet for such a sporty tyre and let me enjoy scratching through some of the best tarmacs in Europe in the dry. The Rosso IV Corsas endured day-long, straight-line motorway rides, torrential rain and scorched mountain roads in the south of France and northern Spain. 3000 of the 3334 miles I’ve covered on them was on a week-long trip to the Pyrenees. They never leave you wanting more on the road, either. Aside from slightly slower steering characteristics and a firmer ride, you’d be hard pushed to tell them apart from a Super Corsa SP. I can vouch for their grip on the track, having ridden a BMW S1000RR on them at Mugello at their launch. They fit between the SP and Diablo Rosso IV in their range and are designed for fast road riding and track days. Impressive stuff, but the Pirelli Diablo Rosso IV Corsas I replaced them with are an even better all-around hi gh-performance road tyre. I changed them after 2944 miles and the rear still looked good. They’re decent in the wet for what’s essentially a cut slick and work fine in the cold, although below 10 degrees it’s tricky to keep heat in them, especially at the front with the slow-steering Triumph’s natural tendency to understeer. They’re superb for rapid road riding and even better on track, as I found out when I took my RR to Oulton earlier in the year – the front and rear never budged an inch.
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