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Summer Tire Test 2025- Dunlop Roadsmart IV vs Brid...

Posted by Ted Edwards | Jun 24, 2025 | Bikes & Gear, Nuts & Bolts | 2 |

Dunlop Roadsmart IV vs Michelin Road 6: Wet Handli...

Posted by Ted Edwards | Sep 27, 2023 | Bikes & Gear | 26 |

Summer Tire Test 2025- Dunlop Roadsmart IV vs Bridgestone Battlax T33

by Ted Edwards | Jun 24, 2025 | Bikes & Gear, Nuts & Bolts | 2 |

However, while some of these claims are true, some are not. Our years of testing has shown that even in this age of technological advancement you can go wrong with your tire choice. Over the past three years and tens of thousands of miles of testing we have found differences both subtle and massive among the sport touring tires. Fellow tester and tire geek Dave Wensveen and I have seen it all from brilliant handling and amazing wet grip to tires that degrade after only 2,000 miles. There are brilliant tires out there, really good tires and absolutely bad tires. Road Dirt is here to help you make an informed choice.

Dunlop Roadsmart IV vs Michelin Road 6: Final Results

by Ted Edwards | Nov 20, 2023 | Bikes & Gear, Nuts & Bolts | 52 |

Our goal was to run both tires down to cord to get final mileage measurements. While that happened with the Dunlop, the Michelin came very close but never had the chance to make it down to metal. We simply ran out of weather. So, for both of my readers waiting patiently to see how long these two sport touring giants would last, here is what we found.

Dunlop Roadsmart IV vs Michelin Road 6: Wet Handling Test

by Ted Edwards | Sep 27, 2023 | Bikes & Gear | 26 |

Yet if you ride in the Pacific Northwest then you know that into every ride a little rain must fall. Just not this year. We rode through most of the West anticipating that somewhere, somehow, we would find nature’s rain for the highly anticipated wet weather tire test of Dunlop’s Roadsmart IV vs Michelin’s Road 6, our participants in year two of our tire shootout series. Instead we found heat, snow, even a biblical plague of grasshoppers but not a single drop of rain. So to answer the question that both of my readers have been asking, we traversed thousands of miles to some of the best riding in the country, the place where it rains every afternoon: Colorado.

Dunlop RoadSmart IV vs Michelin Road 6- Long Term Handling Test

by Ted Edwards | Jul 24, 2023 | Bikes & Gear, Nuts & Bolts | 47 |

New tires are a gift to motorcycle handling, fresh rubber turning your bike into a dance partner with nimble feet and newfound agility. Yet tires do not stay perfectly round for long as accumulated miles flatten rubber eliminating the roundness of honeymoon handling bliss. Much of a tire’s life is spent squared off and how a tire handles at mid-life is a concern of many rider.

Dunlop Roadsmart IV vs. Michelin Road 6: Dry Handling Comparison

by Ted Edwards | Jun 4, 2023 | Bikes & Gear, Rides & Roads | 35 |

For the second year in a row, Road Dirt will be pitting two tire giants against each other in a head-to-head battle for sport touring tire supremacy. Last year, Dunlop’s Roadsmart IV easily won the test over Pirelli’s Angel GT with better dry handling, equal wet weather grip, better long term handling and a shocking 70% more tire life. Conversations with riders and comments from both of my readers asked about Michelins touring giant, the Road 6. So once again, I twisted the arm of my touring companion Dave “White Girl” Wensveen and convinced him to join me for another summer of testing.