I ran a king for years, and was great for the first year and into the second year, but it skipped constantly and the final nail in the coffin was it skipping a full rotation where i could have died pretty easy. I now have a Pro2T, and so far its been awesome. I trust it loads more than i ever did with my King. For the maintainance issue, i know how to clean/lube them, as do the UK importers. It used to skip now and again and it'd be fine after i cleaned it. but it didn't matter what i did to it, it'd still skip.