Goth,
Most definitely the former, I love to get my ride dirty. I don’t even mind the occasional body panel repair / broken part, as long as it happens on the trail and not in the parking lot. I just can’t see killing the ride quality that you get from IFS to do SAS conversion. Sure, you’ll never fit those 38’s you’ve got laying around the shop under your X without it but do you really NEED them, probably not. You can get plenty Hardcore without going to that extreme.
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