I’ve had the same experiences as everyone else with my X-Kings. Only seemed to make progress after I’d ridden on them a couple of times.

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Sorry for the hijack, but do any of these authors have series which have the same characters throughout?

There’s a few I know of:
Neal Asher’s ‘Cormac’ series
Peter F Hamilton – Greg Mandel, Night’s Dawn and Void Trilogies
Alastair Reynold’s – Revelation Space series

Of these I’d particularly recommend Peter F Hamilton’s Night’s Dawn and Void trilogies.

Skyrim with plenty of mods. But it’ll probably take a backseat when Borderlands 2 is released.

I swapped for pretty much the same reasons as OP. New wheels and new tyres. They were a faff to setup, partly I suspect because I didn’t clean the inside of the tyres first (Conti X-Kings).

For me the combination of more comfort and grip with no loss of rolling resistance makes me sure I won’t be going back to tubes.

But everyone has different opinions/requirements. So I’d say give a go, if you don’t like it you can always go back.

Considering we’re still waiting for 3G to arrive here in the rural South Lakes (which is something in the order of 7-8 years since 3G services started if my quick googling is accurate), i’m not going to start worrying about 4G.

+1 for the Photo Sport 200

I’ve just swapped from Tora’s to 2012 120mm Reba RL’s. 2/3rds of the weight and much plusher. Got mine from Merlin as they were 30% off plus another 10% that week. Recommended upgrade IMO.

There’s also the Lowepro Photo Sport 200AW. Been using one of these for a few months now.

http://products.lowepro.com/product/Photo-Sport%20200%20AW,2271.htm