One thing I find interesting, the manner in which the brakes are attached, a lot of road bikes have the bolt thru a hole in the crown of the fork. The Univega Gran Turismo has the mount points on the fork arms themselves. The angle of approach and the orientation to the points where the brake pads contact the wheel and rim, might make for a more sure alignment process. I've had brake pads rotate and not align on many bikes. That can be frustrating, maybe a design like this was intended to take the frustration out of that ? Sweat the detail in the fork & frame design rather than go thru it every time a new set of brake pads goes on ? Might even allow for a longer brake pad and thus improved & superior braking ? I hate it when the brake pads are closer to the tire either in the front or rear of the brake pad and we all know these things come in varying lengths too.