questions: seatpost, saddle position changes w/ fitting

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Infact, I really dislike the entire seatpost/clamping system on the Synapse because small adjustments are virtually impossible to make.

I do, too. It is working out for me, but I dislike idiosyncratic designs that make it impossible to swap the part with something you can find readily in the market. I saw that in the 2012 models, there is more of the same, except now you can have different 'toppers' on the seatpost, with varying amounts of offset (perhaps that new seatpost is backward compatible with 2010 and 2011 modesl?).