Air pressure is the same as your stock tires per Michelin.

 

Look on the tires. They will have a max PSI listed. 30, 34 sounds extremely low to me for pressures. I have commanders in a different size and run 40 and 42 psi.

 

I think that is part of your problem. I can't believe you start ripping on a tire when you can't even check your own tire pressure properly. I have a Dyna, lighter than your Deuce, and I run 40-42 in the rear. The first thing I did after getting my tires put on was set the tire pressure to where it is supposed to be. You can't rely on someone else and then complain. I've had mine in the rain up to 90+ mph, dry handling chasing two buddies on sport bikes and rode home the first day with them in the rain. I doubt I will ever use another tire.

 

I too have the Commanders and while they are decent they aren't any better than the DunLops. Damn dealer insisted they would be better over steel bridges, etc......NOT!

 

Running a Michelin on the back of my Deuce. Only difference I have noticed is I though it feels a little smoother but my Lop I took off was a worn out mess and had been for a while. I do not ride aggressive however and slow way down in the wet. I sure don't drag pegs. One interesting note is my 04 is a 160 x 17. The Lop had a good 1/4 wider rib to make the tire look wider. The 160 Michelin measures a good 3/8" smaller on the width but the actually tread radius and area is the same. However it looks like a 150. I do the James River steel span at Newport News VA and bike moves a good 12" or more to the left time your off it at 55. Same as the Lop. The are presently replaceing the grate.

 

Interesting news. We have been selling the Commander II recently. We have a customer that is in charge of maintaining police fleet bikes for 2 counties in the Northern Virginia area. He also is a ride instructor for those police departments. He was just telling us that they put the Commander II's on one of the police baggers and his time through one of their courses improved and he was able to keep a higher speed on the turns.
Word is that Metzeler is working on a new version of their ME880 to be competitive with the Commander II. Maybe the difference is not only the bike but the way an individual rides the bike. I don't know. Anyway I thought I would throw that out.

 

I rode some of the Blue Ridge Parkway last week and The Tail Of The Dragon at the TN-NC Border area and my Commander II held the road really well in every one of the 318 turns of the Dragons 11 miles and i rode it hard too.

 

It did not do so good when compared to Dunlop on wet road on conerning of much else.
But it cool to tell everyone you took the Dunlops off and put on Michelins or some other brand.
Tried the others Dunlop for my HD and the miles I ride.
And another thing to think about.
. Dunlop has been building tires in Buffalo, NY, since 1920, and to this day is the only manufacturer to build motorcycle tires in the USA.

Read if you want
http://www.dunlopmotorcycle.com/info...p-vs-michelin/

 

I can certianly believe that! As would anyone who's run the Dunlop PT cop tires. I have em on my FXDP, and that sucker is totally dangerous at cornering, particularly in the wet. The sidewalls are so stiff, there's no give or side-conformance at all on a turn. The spec pressure is 30/36, and when I first got the bike, I was too lazy to check the tire pressure. They looked fine. No squat at all. Rode fine dry. A week afterward when I did check em, realized they had 10/12. Whooppps! So I aired em up to spec. Rode no differently at all, looked exactly the same.

 

^^ exactly the same issue I am having with my II's on the Deuce....

Hasn't rained again since my last post about the tires...so we shall see if 2000 miles worth of scrub in will improve wet traction....my guess will be no...