For anyone that cares, I've been running the shinko 009 Ravens on my big bandit and they are very good tires. I know the BA/SM are a different class tire all together, but these are good, and they are starting to show up all over the track, too. Are they a Michelin Pilot Power? Well, no. But they are not too far from it and I can get a set of the 009's - mounted- for less than a single Pilot rear. Well worth the money IMHO.
