It all went quiet there. :) I was just trying to think of a method that will save you a lot of work, but sadly I don't think there is one. Hopefully someone else will contradict me. As far as I know, there is no way of keeping this as a single group that will give you the flexibility you want. It's either bend morphs on a single group (=crappy bends), or several groups + EasyPose (maybe) (= lots of work transferring the morphs). There has to be a way of transferring morphs from a single mesh to a grouped mesh, but I don't know of a general purpose method. I'd advise a few tests to see how few segments you can get away with and still retain the flexibility you want. Including the curve dial on each segment ought to help out, but apparently it doesn't always. :) Results have been rubbish whenever I've tried it, so don't ask me. ;)