What has also been slightly irritating in the case of Sq is that he asks questions which he already has his mind set on already, insults everyone who disagrees on the choice or have other suggestions, insults people who have made different choices and promotes his (still unrealized) choices over others and insults people who point out the faults in the bike Sq has already chosen to be the grand tourer of his life.

Honestly, the 920 is just riddled with issues. it IS a good concept, having 29er tires on a 700c touring rig, especially if you have fender clearance is a fantastic idea. More tire clearance doesn't mean you can't use thinner tires for tarmac tours. But the 920 just is not well implemented.

28 spoke wheels are the obvious issue, especially with the heavy duty racks implying you can carry 4 panniers through single track. Again, if the wheels were actually engineered for such stuff (deep vee, triple butted spokes, reinforced spoke bed and extra high spoke tensions) they might be really good for that intended purpose. But the wheels are just lower mid level 29er wheels, which have a lot of know issues such as cracking rims, broken spokes, etc etc (did a bit more research on this)

Gearing is a bit weird as it's a double so might be interesting on bigger hills. I'd go for a triple but whatever. The component set overall is very mid level stuff, which doesn't support the massive price tag.

Internal routing on a tour bike is just not a good idea. It isn't. Fiddling with that stuff at a well stocked bike garage can be frustrating and usually requires at least some sort of fiddly tools (like i've mentioned before, I use strong magnets and surgical tools to deal with internal routings). Doing that stuff on tour in the wild would be an absolute nightmare. And cables do snap occasionally. And on a longer tour it might become relevant to swap the shifter cables just as a part of routine maintenance, especially not that Sq has supposedly put brifters of his bike, which are quite sensitive to good quality good condition cables. It would have been much smarter to pump the frame full of attatchment points so you'd get a full length gear cable housings. Not the easily contaminated thing the 920 now offers. You wouldn't need to make as many housing cuts, no fiddling, just one cut on housing, one cut on cable. That's it. More starts to require a cable cutter. Not to mention that while internal routing holes might not make the frame noticeably weaker, they certainly don't make it stronger.

It just is not a good bike in it's current form. It's overpriced for what it is, and it's not suitable for its marketed intended use. And all this forum did in the beginning was to try to convey that to Sq, who had already decided that the 920 was his dream bike, insulted everyone who criticized the bike and all the people who rode something else, like the LHT made from very low grade steel tubing and which rides very badly (although it's actually more nimble than the 920)