I've run a couple of V02 rears now, and they have been extremely long-lasting, and grippy all the way through the life of the tyre. That's the Medium compound though; I ran a new soft at Wakey for the FX club meet, and it was ripped up in 1 session and completely destroyed after the 2nd (short) session. Not good, although to be fair anything but the hard compound Dunlops and Pirellis, and the harder Bridgie were doing the same thing.

The Medium V02 did a race day at QR in almost 70 degree track temp, including a 17 lap race, a full day racing in cool weather at Wakey (when other tyres were tearing to bits) and all day yesterday at the Creek, and it's still got good life left (another day, probably). And that's on the Ape, that is proving to be rather hard on rears (TC and/or wheelie control are pretty hard on rears, apparently).