My views of the tyre seems to differ, I have them on both my road bikes (picked a good day to ask the question too), as for puncture proof they are not that reliable, today I punctured twice within 30 minutes, both front and back, large flints right through the tyre and is certainly not the 1st puncture that I have had with them. The tyres themselves I find they cut very easily (my back tyre is only 3 months old and well cut in places) and when I remove the back tyre to put my turbo tyre on, I'm surprised how many flints that I find embedded in the tyre itself which I have not noticed before and all have penetrated through to the inside, why I don't puncture more amazes me. As a test I pushed a drawing pin into one of my tyres and it took no effort to pass through the tyre, thought there may have been more resistance.
Just had to exchange one tyre just over 2 months old, 700+ miles, as the outer laminate peeled off whilst out riding, scared me to death, but doing an online search found a few references to such happenings but mainly in America.
Handling in the wet I have had no problems with and on one notorious corner I crashed last year at 19mph on Bontrager tyres in the wet, which I have always took at never less than 29mph on the specialized all condition elites, today I put the gremlins to bed on that wet corner and sailed round at 27mph on the specialized again, it was squeeky bum stuff though in case I crashed again but got my confidence back.
But despite what I say, I have found them excellent tyres, punctures are not that common, a lot may be where you ride, most of the roads I'm on are just full of crap the farmers drop and today I knew it would be a bad day before I set off (probably too many negative waves), easy to fit, apart from my new one which is a b****d to fit its that tight. When I repaired my punctures today, I can fit one of the tyres with my fingers, but my new one, it has to be levered on with a struggle and a struggle to remove.
But deep down if I could find a cheaper option then I would take it.