As Chris says, I run my Blockleys at 36psi routinely and a bit higher if its hot or when I've been on track. When I talked to someone from Blockley at a show a while back he strongly recommended making a large jump from the 25 or 26psi I had been running and that it should take the handling into a bit of a sweet spot while gradual small increases might actually mean going through a zone of poorer handling.
The tyres made of glass syndrome in very wet conditions on Blockleys at about 26psi doesn't seem to happen remotely as badly at 36. I do have the Ohlins shocks which help in so many ways.
I too have managed to get 16000 miles from a pair of Blockleys but only by running them down a bit slicker than is entirely sensible and counting it as 8000 miles on the left and 8000 miles on the right...
