That bike is a beauty! I love Babette, my Giant Cypher, and I am sure I get out on the trails more because of her.
It's funny--I'm in the market for my first road bike, and I'm having the same misgivings about getting "too nice" of a bike. As if we somehow need to justify how we spend our own money! Somehow those old men driving Porsches don't seem to have the same issue...