Don't know about the Lane 1 xxx never tried or have I seen it in action.

I do bowl in Senior leagues and because of that I've seen some DRY conditions (Seniors don't rate OIL)! For the last couple of years I've tried some balls described for DRY or MED/DRY condition .. some were good .. best I've come across is the AMF Night Hawk Pearl. It's a good price and does the job!  
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if you can find one, a visionary slate blue gargoyle does the trick for me. i love it.
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If you want to stay with resin, check out the Visionary Green/Blue Centaur.

http://www.visionarybowling.com/IndexAlternative.html

It came at 1000 matte and I took mine to 4000 abralon with polish and it hooks a tad bit more than my white dot does.
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if there is just a little oil you will get into trouble with the XXXL OOB... but dulling makes the ball handle some more oil imho

Just don't expect a "reactive" type of reaction...

I have one XXXL drilled "label" and the new bowling center here has a 36ft very narrow oiled THS on brand new AMF lanes with sqeaky clean backends...
short... light oiled... and strong backends

the XXXL is good there... as well as the white dot... and any other plastic... it just hooks a tad more imho (you can play your reactive stuff as well... jsut need to get real deep and play all over the lane... bad for crankers.... which use plastic then)

...expensive is relative....
the plus of the XXXL is that it really is plastic and can be used as spareball as I do with mine... some kind of combo of spareball and "last resort" when it really gets too dry for reactives which I have faced here in Germany imho "too" often

but I guess this is the same for old urethan... I guess

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I'd have to vote for the XXXL (plastic) or a polished up Liberator (urethane). When you have true dry lanes, resin is not the answer. =:^D

http://alltenback.com/bowlingballreviews/xxxl/ballphotos/pin.html

link of photos Of the XXXL by lane 1 above.

For bone dry lanes XXXL by lane 1 is a fantastic ball but the back ends have to be dry as well for it to work well.  If the back ends have oil carry down this ball will never finish.

I bought this ball cheap on ebay as a test pilot and it was already plugged up.  The plug job the person did was horrible so we had to work around it a bit with a bigger thumbslug.  I had Tony C. at www.bigdaddysproshop.com drill it up close to the specs the person before had it.  

Surprisingly it works awesome.  It isn't a fast reving ball but for really dry lanes weather it is synthetics or old wood it works great.

Sometimes there is a lot of oil carry down and the ball doesn't make the turn and finish to well.  So it will leave a lot of ten pins if the conditions aren't correct.

This ball works great as my spare ball as well.

The new Lane #1 XXXL Starburst model is the exact same ball they have been producing for years.  The new model is just now fancy looking.  I still might order the new model but it is great to pull this ball out in league play and people are like "WTF is that"  


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