So much depends on where you live, where you ride and what your priorities are.
There is very little in the way of off-road options near me, I can find very badly surfaced lanes, and a few can can be covered in mud, or down to hard packed rocks in places, find a proper gravel trail near me is difficult, and proper off-road is not really an option, even in the parts of the UK with "lots" of trails it is usually the odd off-road section here and there, and by "section" I mean a few miles at best.
If heading to Europe there is much more, but I have to do 500+ miles to get there, and normally it is the Holiday with the Mrs so nothing more adventurous than a well graded gravel track, and I have ridden some of these on 190BHP sportsbikes two-up so the Tenere on any road tyre will more than cope.
Tyres like the K60 which are probably a genuine 50/50 (i.e good, but not great both on and off road) type of tyre would be great for anyone who can regularly off-road, providing some off-road capability, with good road manners and probably more than enough tarmac grip for many road riders.
I do not for one minute believe any Tourance / Anakee / Battlewing / Trail Attack tyre is anything other than a road tyre with a slightly chunkier pattern for asthetic reasons, therefore I often buy full on road tyres which tend to have a smidge more dry grip and a fair bit more wet grip than the "fake" dual purpose tyres, I can certainly tell the difference from a Tourance EXP and a Roadsmart and the switch on my GS allowed me to go a bit quicker in the dry, and felt far more sure footed in the wet.
I think if someone came up with something more 75% / 25% (i.e. more than a stylistic nod to off-road, but still with excellent road characteristics) I may be tempted, but for me the likes of K60's give up a bit too much road performance (some I can genuinely use) for an offroad cability I would probably never need - although the tyre life alone makes them damn attractive :exclaim:
I would have thought a chunkier middle-half way around section, narrowing to almost slick edges would work - a bit like how modern sportsbike tyres have develpoed to the point where they are slick at the edge, but still offer a lot more wet grip than a true slick. So a tyre that gives a bit of offroad potential (like the sports tyres bit of wet potential) but still has great cornering by providing a grippy edge.
There is very little in the way of off-road options near me, I can find very badly surfaced lanes, and a few can can be covered in mud, or down to hard packed rocks in places, find a proper gravel trail near me is difficult, and proper off-road is not really an option, even in the parts of the UK with "lots" of trails it is usually the odd off-road section here and there, and by "section" I mean a few miles at best.
If heading to Europe there is much more, but I have to do 500+ miles to get there, and normally it is the Holiday with the Mrs so nothing more adventurous than a well graded gravel track, and I have ridden some of these on 190BHP sportsbikes two-up so the Tenere on any road tyre will more than cope.
Tyres like the K60 which are probably a genuine 50/50 (i.e good, but not great both on and off road) type of tyre would be great for anyone who can regularly off-road, providing some off-road capability, with good road manners and probably more than enough tarmac grip for many road riders.
I do not for one minute believe any Tourance / Anakee / Battlewing / Trail Attack tyre is anything other than a road tyre with a slightly chunkier pattern for asthetic reasons, therefore I often buy full on road tyres which tend to have a smidge more dry grip and a fair bit more wet grip than the "fake" dual purpose tyres, I can certainly tell the difference from a Tourance EXP and a Roadsmart and the switch on my GS allowed me to go a bit quicker in the dry, and felt far more sure footed in the wet.
I think if someone came up with something more 75% / 25% (i.e. more than a stylistic nod to off-road, but still with excellent road characteristics) I may be tempted, but for me the likes of K60's give up a bit too much road performance (some I can genuinely use) for an offroad cability I would probably never need - although the tyre life alone makes them damn attractive :exclaim:
I would have thought a chunkier middle-half way around section, narrowing to almost slick edges would work - a bit like how modern sportsbike tyres have develpoed to the point where they are slick at the edge, but still offer a lot more wet grip than a true slick. So a tyre that gives a bit of offroad potential (like the sports tyres bit of wet potential) but still has great cornering by providing a grippy edge.