I have conti escapes on my Transalp. Best tyre I have fitted to the bike in over 100,000miles of riding it. They last ages - 15,000 from a rear, 20,000+ from a front, easy to fit being a proper tubeless design, cheap, wear evenly, excellent grip dry and wet, and best of all not overly sensitive to overbanding/white lines and stuff.
I had a couple of sets of tourances on the Transalp and while good new and having fab grip wet and dry, within a couple of thousand miles they seem to wear a bit square and then get very sensitive to overbanding and white lines. As they get very worn, the front tyre also gets noisy. A rear did last about 12K though, but the front not much more and was replaced at the same as the rears.
I have tourances as Original Equipment on my XT660R. Just 4,000miles on this bike but the tyres started the white line sensitivity thing at about 3K. When they need replacing I will be either fitting Conti Escapes or something a bit more off road oriented.
Trouble with opinions about tyres though, is that they are like arseholes: everyone has got one.
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