I used to think that any bike that had a top tube that was not horizontal looked funny. I worked in a bike shop in the 1970s and all bikes had a horizontal top tube unless they were ladies models. But, I eventually got used to non-horizontal top tubes once I started seeing a lot of compact frames. Things that you are not accustomed to seeing look odd and any bike with a really long head tube looks odd until you get used to it. Before I bought my Thorn Sherpa 610S frame and fork, I was concerned about how it would look with that steeply sloping top tube and really long head tube, but after riding it several hundred miles I decided that it looks just fine to me. And, when I am in the saddle, I really don't care what other people think it looks like.