Not at all. Not sure about the puncture protection but certainly the comfort. This is more or less the bicycle that Mrs Tiger and I will be riding following the bicycle test we did at the weekend. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cp0CE_XWYAA4hL5.jpg I need to get one of those bottle cages that drop down...

As a bonus climb-saver, you could look up the SP32 between Germangnano and Forno to the west, just 20km / ~500m and it cuts out all of that first spike on the profile. Get a head-start and heckle the faster riders as they come past that evening :-bd then settle into the really great climb and dirt ...