I can honestly say I drooled over Momovelo's site once a week, too,(more for the photography than the bikes themselves,) and it was pretty upsetting finding out about his shady business practices right here on Bikeforums. To say that I don't like his bikes and photos of his bikes because of his business practices is a little silly. I'm fully aware that Dostoyevsky was a butthole as a human being, but he's still my favorite author.

Kogswell definitely has a point about how Mr. Matsuda betrayed the trust of reputable online bicycle merchants everywhere, but now I just go to the Kogswell site once a week and drooool.

As far as the whole "copying an aesthetic"-thing goes, well, aren't pretty much all lugged steel manufacturers, and a few TIG bikes, copying older touring- and audax-type bicycles? I mean, I'm a total drinker of the retrogrouch kool-aid, but to say that Rivendell, Kogswell and Momovelo are more derivative of each other than older high end European bikes is kind of silly. It's not like these are companies who are trying to make the most aerodynamic recumbent on earth, they're copying older bikes. Artfully, beautifully and with great tubing and components, but none of it is anything very new.