Thanks Jcm, Im gonna update the pic soon, I just had my handlebar shellaced.
I'd say give erosion a couple hundred million years or wait a couple thousand for the U.S. to approach the Netherlands' population density and we should start using uprights more. Until then, feel free to get off your high horse and recognize that biking in the U.S. is primarily the pursuit of fit people, and just because they like faster bikes doesn't mean they're vain egoists who put fashion above pragmatism.
Or you can simply move to a denser area and start riding more. Be an example.
Funny, your statements about riding a high horse applies to cyclist who do it for fitness too and cannot see that practical bicycling is feasable, or even "appropriate" here in the USA anyway.