Beasts com in many sizes brudder Scootsmun. Take your Highland coos for instant, a mighty beasties indeed, yet not so beastie as me Brahma...
@Jeremy I have no experience with Pirelli on the R3T but did have them on my FZ1 when I met Bambi on a wooded curve here in Virginia Aug of 2012. That tire can take some serious weaving on a banked curve and stuck the lighter bike well. It however is worthless on a wet grassy embankment. Totaled that bike that day, Okay, not the tires fault at all.
I run the Bridgestone Exedra Max on Brahma and get about 13,000 miles on a set. These tires offer good traction on wet pavement too.