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I've run a tire or two off my 2000 Sport. I'm hard on tires, up-shifting hard and engine braking back down. Sprint the straight, brake hard, and drive out. Not a formula for tire life. Sporty good fun, ya, but change your tires with your oil. The 2000 V11 Sport was delivered with Pirelli Dragon Corsa. Kind of like a heavy, but very pretty, girl on high heels. Going dancing? Better be ready for the catch! Down-size-ing to the 160 on the early, narrow rims, and finding more suitable tires, along with setting the proper sag (weighting the front) has all been brilliant. The reports of weave and such would be gone. This Pirelli Angel GT is my 25th rear tire. New tire for them: new tire for me. I didn't expect much. I like Pirelli. I've worn out: Dragon Corsa, Diablo Strada, (x5), Angel (x4) (Dunlop, Michelin, Metzler, Bridgestone - ok, so I sleep around ) As Pirelli have evolved the tires I have seen very little change "in the field." Until now. In the past, if a tire was beginning to look worn - replace it! The wear would accelerate in the last couple hundred miles. I took a chance riding to Barber's Vintage Festival and back on this "new" Pirelli GT. 500 miles round trip, 45 mph average speed (no big high speed runs - riding with small displacement Hondas!) Average miles on all prior Angels/Stradas: 3,700 miles. Impression: they "go away" quickly in the last couple hundred miles. I would not have left on this 500 mile trip on those tires. Risked the trip on the GT: 4,100 miles and it needs replacing, but didn't let me down on the trip giving up a big white stripe I was watching for the whole time. My impression: the Pirelli Angel GT is a breakthrough for our lovely (if heavy) dancing girls!