I got a chance to use my new BITE in my league over the weekend.  I was bowling on a 39' flat gutter to gutter pattern, buffed to 42'.  The backends were moving pretty good.  This is a tough pattern.

On the above pattern the BITE had tremendous backend recovery.  The BITE seems stronger on the backend than the NO MERCY.  The BITE also has good mid-lane read and seems very clean thru the heads.  I think the NO MERCY is a tad bit stronger in the mid-lane but not as angular on the backend as the BITE.

The BITE just had an awesome reaction through out the entire lane.  The only negative I can see with this ball is the control factor on tougher patterns.  I don't think the stroker type players will have any problems with controlling this ball on any patterns.  The higher rev guys are the ones that may have a little bit of a problem with the control.  Of course it really depends on the pattern.

I went to a stroker release in the last game of league.  The BITE worked very good with that type of hand release.  When I switched to the stroker hand release and played more direct on this pattern, I was able to control the reaction a lot better and still had tremendous hitting power.  I actually had a lot more fun rolling this ball with the stroker hand release than I did with my normal release.  A lot of that was probably due to the type of pattern I was bowling on.  

So far the BITE is a winner in my book but won't give it a full review until I can use it on some more patterns.