Tires on file | How we rate

- models listed (- street legal). Five dots is the top of the scale. Shop links go to search results, not product pages.

180 tires and 260 motorcycles from 8 brands are on file.

Browse by brand

Each brand opens a list of OE tire sizes for its models. From a model you reach the tires that fit those sizes.

Tires on file

All tire models

Every tire on file, each with a short note on what the maker states and how we read it. Pick a bike and the list narrows to the ones matching its front and rear sizes.

The sentence after each note turns our own six-axis rating into words.

IRC

Avon

Continental

Shinko

Dunlop

Pirelli

Bridgestone

Maxxis

Michelin

Mitas

Metzeler

How we rate

The dots (1 to 5) are our own estimates for each tire. Here is what goes into them.

What we work from

We open the manufacturer's own product page and take the stated use, the size range, street legality and the recommended rim widths. On top of that we read the tread pattern and the drift of published reviews. We do not test-ride and we do not measure. Nothing here comes from running these tires back to back, so read the numbers as a read on character, not as performance data.

Road and off-road are two different scales

Road tires are rated on dry, wet, life, warm-up, comfort and sport. Off-road tires are rated on sand, mud, rocks, hard-pack, tarmac and life. Even “life” means a different thing on each side, so numbers cannot be compared across the two. That is why the two worlds are kept behind a switch rather than merged into one list.

Unverified stays unverified

A tire we have not yet checked against its official page is shown as such. Street legality has three states — legal, competition only, and unconfirmed — and we do not move a doubtful one into “legal”. A rim-width match is shown only when both the tire maker's spec table and the bike maker's stated OE rim width are in hand; if either is missing, we show nothing. Not guessing matters more to us than filling the gap.

No overall score

Add the six axes into a single score and the rider crossing sand gets the same answer as the rider commuting. Sorting works axis by axis instead, so which one matters is yours to decide. Picking “the best tire” for you is not our job.

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