question of feel?

Ok, all you gurus, I just am not felling the "glued to the road" feeling you guys are talking about. My dark side tire is a 4ply tire 195/65-15 calls for 51 lbs on the side of the tire. I put 42lbs in the tire.
The way it feels is almost the same as the MC tire, with some minor exceptions, It tends to respond more quickly to pushing on the handle bars, tends to stand up faster out of a turn as well.
I have been trying to getr the tire to talk to me but it just seems void. I ride the area were there are defects in the asphalt and I cant fell them. I try to ride the paint lines and I still cant fell them. In areas where the splices the road surface to make the road wider no dice just void.
It does how ever have weird kind of a set into a curve. It sets down and and kicks out abit, but then holds solid.
But I just can't feel that road grip you are talking about. I just want to get the tire pressure right.
Are there any dark siders near north houston toward Cleveland or Conroe who would be interested in helping a fella out?

1st, what kind of horse you riding? The "void" you are feeling, is it because you getting a smoother ride than you was on the MC? I'm running the same size on my 1988 Kaw Voyager XII and love it, at 40lbs. I also felt the "kicked out" feeling in the turns at 1st, but now I don't even notice it at all, Just wait until you ride in the rain, you will then fall in love with a tire, Play with your air pressures 2 lbs at a time to find your sweet spot. Ride the tire a couple hundred miles for now to scuff the mold release compound off of it. In about a week you will forget all about your on a CT and love the ride.

06 Triumph America, called Matilda is what I ride.
Its definately smoother, but I was looking for those subtle tell tale sighns of being right, or wrong.
I am riding spokes and using a tube.

I found just what I was looking for in the ride, my bike is a sofa on wheels to start with, and now it just floats down the road like a old 70's caddy, but will still drag the pegs when I want it too. Best of both worlds. Like I say, give it a week or so and you find yourself riding it harder and harder. Welcome to the Darkside.

I was wondering what you are calling "riding" or "cornering" - I meet so many guys on MT's who have 1-1/2" worth
of chicken strips on their tires, I doubt they would ever feel ANYTHING from a different tire.
Oddly, MOST of new DS'ers are OVERsensitive to the tire at first. At your pressure, I'd expect it to be making you
more nervous, but evidently it's not tracking, or you'd know, believe me.
Type of bike, type of tire, riding style, local pavement, curve speeds and all have bearing on this.
After all that, sweet spot pressure is subjective.

90% of my riding is commuting to work and back as my only form of transportation. I do however enjoy getting out and riding for fun. Then I push my bike into turns and have some fun on back highways.
I'm not nervous nor am I afraid. I was just looking for the signs that I was on track with pressure. I did notice today that at 80mph on highway 105 in an area where they had ground up the pavement to do some repairs, I floated across that like it was smooth pavement, and it was in a nice bend. So I have found some benefit.

As Gearhead suggested, 2 lb increments at a time, and I recommend going a couple hundred miles on each pressure, to
give time to get used to each and better determine handling. High, it follows irregularities, low, it wallows a bit on hard
corners.