Scooter,
Are you a member of the VFR List? If not, it's a very good resource for this type of question. I was/am still a member, as I previously had a 99 VFR 800. Here's the link, just in case...
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~john/vfr-list/
At the bottom, there's an "archive", and usually you can search it. If the search doesn't work, you can do a google search, and include "site:cs.wisc.edu" or something like that, and you'll get hits from the list. They have done extensive discussions on tires. I personally liked my BT010s, and some have done a combo of BT010 on front and BT020 on the back for mileage reasons.
I hope this helps.