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I'll be in London next week sometime (not quite sure when atm), so I can take them into the office (just off TCR) and leave them in wheel bags for you to collect whenever suits.
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Well I was riding them quite happily and I didn't notice anything untoward. DT Alpine spokes plus Archetypes makes for a ridiculously stiff wheelset, as you can probably imagine – they only got put to one side as I snapped my only non-disc frame, so I didn't have anything to use them with! I'm around 110kg and my last set of 32h Archetypes lasted until the brake track fell off.
I'm pretty sure that the spoke tension is too high on the rear, though – I vaguely remember reading that DT Alpine III spokes give funky readings on some tensiometers – so that'd possibly explain the cracking.
The front is absolutely fine, though.
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I can happily grab some next time I'm down London way, so will be sometime next week - I'll ping you a DM once I've uploaded them...
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More things, and more price drops.
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Another vote for IRC X-Guards. £100 a pair, but then they've outlasted every other tyre I've ever used – no p-words so far.
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More price drops. Pls help me empty my 'bike room'. :)
As @Amey mentioned (waves), Schwalbe Pro Ones were total shit for me. Way more punctures than standard Ones, and several punctures that refused to seal so required patching from the inside/tyre worms. Far, far too much faff.
Moved to IRC Formula X-Guard and haven't had a puncture since. Had to bin one because I hadn't noticed that a piece of glass (I'm guessing) had slashed straight through to the puncture proof layer - it went right across the tread - but even then it hadn't punctured or let out any air at all, I just didn't fancy riding it any more. It could have been like that for 100s of miles for all I knew.
Current puncture proof mileage is at around 3000 km on one (which I now have as a spare), and around 1700km on the new pair I bought. Wear rate is impressively low and while the rear has flattened off a bit after 1700km, I weigh 110kg so I'm pretty happy with that – I imagine they'll last a very very long time for lighter riders.
If you don't mind trading a bit of puncture resistance for speed, then the RBCC version dumps the puncture proof layer – I'm looking to get a pair for review, and am keen to see if they're as awesome as the x-guards.