Thanks Randya and thanks all others who have chimed in. This is certainly helping me to better understand what I can expect from the various models.

I read somewhere on another forum that the Electra bikes were really only great looking on picture and that the weldings and paint jobs weren't all that good in real life. The same person went on to say that the Nirves were looking very promising, though. Does anyone have any info to verify or deny these two claims?