I'm just a nobody who has no experience with anything so you can take this with a grain of salt but, I'm one of the guys who love the way the MT/R's look. Unfortunately, after testing them out, I have found them to be the WORST tire I have ever run. I could never get them balanced, their directional tread design caused funny tracking at highway speeds, they were unpredictable on the rocks and their sidewalls were weak. Now, if these were the ONLY tires I have ever run, I might not know what a better tire would be like. But hey, to each their own. Maybe the MT/R's have a QC problem and the ones I had as well as the ones Mel has had and the ones GCM 2 has had were just from a bad batch. We've all run them and none of us would run them again.