Poet, you took the words right out of my mouth (off of my keyboard?). And there is another newish crank forward batch of bikes being made. Sort of a cross between an upright and a 'bent.

Anyway, the more I think about it, there are but two classifications of bike that really mean anything.

1) the bikes that make you smile

2) the bikes that don't.

Buy your bike(s) from the first group. Life is too short to put up with bikes that don't make you smile.