There's a lot to be said for some good rubber. It can save you a lot of pain, heartache and crashes... and ['m not even talking about tyres yet. But joking aside, what's the point in spanking all your hard-earned crash on the latest machine and some of the greatest parts, to then go and put some crap hoops on? I mean, you wouldn't see Mo Farah running the Olympics in rubbish shoes, and with the price of tyres nowadays, you need to be extra picky with what you want.
And that got us thinking. Last year Dangerous went out and thrashed the very latest and greatest that the world of slick tyres had to offer, sampling all the delights of purebred race rubber. By scoring them on their feel and the experience of riding, as well as on
lap times and longevity, I don't think we've ever seen a test that was quite so thorough; the very best of the best were nit-picked to within an inch of their lives, where the onslaught of Pirelli just nipped the top spot from Bridgestone. So, this time, armed with a whole host of treaded, road-legal but lap-time savvy hoops, we packed up our troubles (and a Suzuki GSX-R1000R) and headed off to one of the most brutally bumpy and challenging circuits Spain has to offer; Paramotor.
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