If you go beyond a little magazine interview to the books (yes, there are entire books on Moulton, his life of engineering all manner of things including his bikes), you'll get a rather more complete picture. Dr. Moulton began working on cycle design in 1956, and his first bikes came out at the end of 1962. The Moulton Museum (yes, there is one) is filled with years of prototypes, test mules and yes, dead ends and failures. Fun fact: back in the 1950s he even tested (and rejected!) the recumbent position. There are test rigs and archives of results. He did the same thing from 1973 to 1983 for the spaceframe bikes. I'm hard-pressed to name anyone in the 20th Century who started with a clean sheet of paper and no box to stay inside, did more investigation and resulted in something unique with merit.

It's a well-ridden road: it would be hard to come up with a fresh, new criticism of Moulton bikes; they have been denigrated and even savaged since 1962 and continue to be to this day. Yet the bikes have their fans.