Originally Posted by stephtu

Hard to evaluate the ride over the nasty road unless you were riding other bikes over the same exact road with similar size tires/pressure. The integrated seatpost, you do have to get in the right ballpark of height before they cut it, but there is still something like 2cm range of adjustment after the cut, so you can still get a fitting as long as you aren't grossly off. Plus I think they have alternate extra tall masts for another 2cm if you cut off too much. Do agree it's less optimal for resale though, and to me 25% is a lot more, not "only 800".