Quote: Aaron Calder wrote in post #15

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By the way, matey, if you try telling us now that you have been enjoying hot dry weather for the last few days, we'll know you're telling porkies. Jockey wheels don't lie.

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Quote: Deeps wrote in post #17

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You're right about the Tornado, Roger, but the distance is out about 500km as it hit in our State of Baden Württemburg

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Roger has just reminded me that I promised to report back on my experiences with the Alko 'Soft' jockey wheel that I fitted in June to replace a perished pneumatic tyre that was leaking air.

Well, it's a wheel and it does its job perfectly adequately is about all I can say. To that I would have to add that I no longer have to worry about the pneumatic tyre going soft on me while touring- so that's a bonus - but I think I preferred the way the pneumatic tyre coped with soft surfaces like gravel and with stepped changes of level when using the mover.

So really it's a trade-off between the smoothness of a tubeless pneumatic and the harsher, puncture-proof supposedly soft solid wheel.

On reflection, I think it would have been worth fitting a £5 inner tube to extend the life of the old tyre rather than forking out such a ridiculous sum for the new solid one.