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@Greenman
I'm reading some of these posts and I have to laugh. Do you realize how self-absorbed you sound as you dictate the terms of what's cool and what's not? I am born and raised in NYC. I've ridden the streets of Manhattan since I was a schoolboy. Almost lost my right foot to a cabbie who ran a red light. Took me two years to walk properly again. After this long recovery, I'm back out there again, have ridden almost 1800 miles in 2007 thus far, with a long-term goal of riding Paris-Brest-Paris in 2011. Part of the preparation involves the Boston-Montreal-Boston 1200K in 2008. Because it' involves Boston and it's part of my recovery from near disaster and there's a Boston edition Langster and the geometry fits my body well, I reserved one. But if I read you right, because I want this bike I'm not cool; when you see me you will assume I'm just a coffee shop poseur. You'll disrespect me when you see me on this bike, blissfully unaware that I have eight other bikes in my garage (vintage junkie - and three of them I built myself from mongrels). You'll look at my bike and not my muscle tone as you decide I'm not worth speaking to. Perhaps you should consider taking a moment or two to get to know someone, judging them by their character instead by some artificially-created social standard. The coolest thing you can do is decide for yourself what is good instead of relying on the crowd to decide for you.