I'm a bit late, I suspect, into this party. I've posted a similar question this afternoon. I'd agree that BT45s are good, having had them on a Suzuki GS650GT and a Yam XS650. But! I've heard some good things about the new Avon AM26 Roadriders. With tyre (sorry, tire - we must make allowances for our colonial cousins...

) technology moving constantly forward, and the Avons being a considerably newer design, logic suggests that they might be the equal, or even the superior, of the Bridgestone. Oh for the olden days, when the only tyre (sorry, tire... what the heck; we invented the darned language! Tyre!) to have if you ever took a corner - apart from nothing Japanese, of course, was the Pirelli Phantom! Now that was a great looking tyre, and very sticky as well. I wonder how they'd compare nowadays...?