macadam 90's are the best tires I've used so far, I'd always used dunlop's, but the mac 90's came stock on my bandit, I've found that they stick like glue 'till the pegs grind and when they do slide it's a nice drift, not abrupt or unsetteling. Wet traction is as good or better than anything I've found, and they've lasted 18k miles, though they're coming off soon, some cupping on the front, but no worse than the BT 050's or D205's i've used on the VFR, or metzlers on my ZX10, all in all for freeway commuting and mountian pass shredding they're pretty good, I'll replace them with either mac 100's or the new pilot street or road or whatever they're calling it. One advantage to a cold wet climate is that tires last a long time, but chains and sprockets get hammered, I run 36/40 psi and consistantly get over 10k on tires