Since 2015, I,ve had an Iron, stage three Screaming Eagle kit etc, love the bike, back tyre is shit, every year we go around Tassi, best part for us is the trip from Struan to Hobart, so from Strahan you head to Queenstown , then up this bloody big slippery mountain, last year it rained the night before, going up the mountain was a night mare, no grip a little and I mean a little throttle and I was going sidewise, my tyres are crap, I mean they are ok  in the dry but, anyway, can some one recommend a decent tyre for the rear, at the moment rear is Mechlin, were going back to tassi one last time, (im ill, say its my swan song, and fuck it im only 67) so you guys whot do you recommend

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Yep pirelli night dragon.Problem solved

Just put Avon Cobra's on mine last weekend so too soon to comment on their performance. $500 fitted. 

Thanks guys , will now go on the search for Pirelli night dragon gts, or even the avons,

Telly

So it was not my imagination that I thought I was going to die when I got caught in a downpour on the Mitchell fwy in Perth, near Osborne park and I got the feeling that I was floating on the water ( I have Scorchers). There was only a slight bend in the road but I slowed down to 80kms per hour then got off the fwy. I have not ridden this bike much and that was the first time in the wet. Only 7000 kms on the tires.

Hell, sure they weren't Dunlops? That's how mine were in the wet. Useless.

My Dunlops were okay, I was never scared in the wet on them

i use shinko 777's. i haven't tried some of the other suggestions in this thread yet, but i don't think i'll bother. they're cheap, and are far better than the metzeler and dunlops i've used previously. they increased my confidence in the wet heaps (and i ride every day year round) and if it wasn't for the fact the metzeler i have on the front still has heaps of tread i'd be switching it for a shinko too. i've got about 12k on my shinko rear now and it is due for replacement, and i'll be putting another shinko on in its place.

I am currently running night dragons on my 08 custom. Every one raved about them in the wet but to be honest they are not as good as I expected. I will try the cobras or shinkos next time.