All positive on the Blockleys so far; more grip, slightly heavier steering but less increase in steering weight as you wind the lock on. They don't seem to howl quite as much on hard cornering and braking as the Avons - is that a pro or a con?
Only been able to try them on hot dry clean roads so far but it can only be a matter of time before that changes. There was a comment about there being more road noise with them but I don't know how you would tell in amongst the rest of the racket.
I can believe that modern bike tyres would stick like the proverbial and with much less deformation, might not last very long on the road though.
In case of accusations of thread hi-jack I think I may have sussed out the wishbone movement/clacking cause. I should have some shims arriving this week to allow me to pack out the bushes to fit the gaps between the pick up point brackets. This should also allow all the brackets to be parallel rather than pinched in as some of them are. The gaps between the pairs of brackets are somewhat variable. Unfortunately I'll be disappearing for two weeks on Friday so am unlikely to get everything straightened and shimmed up till I get back
