The bike looks great but it's definetly a sit up sort of high grade "cruiser". As someone that did a lot of longer club rides where I'm sure there was some just for fun racing that took place I'm sure you remember how nice it is to tuck a little to cut through the headwinds or get more speed. It doesn't seem like this bike would allow you to do much of that.

My own current favourite style of frame for an all'rounder commuter and play bike is to use a cyclocross frame and be sure to get one that has rack mounts. And if this was to be my only bike then I'd go for disc brakes as well. Since I can't "bend that way" anymore the bars will be mounted a hair on the higher side and I'm experimenting with moustache bars on one of my present bikes as a way to get lots of hand placement options without the need to fold up to get into the drops. I just ordered a Soma Double Cross frame to base this on. Having had a lot of bikes over the past 15 years I've come to the conclusion that I like steel frames.

Anyhow, the point is that if you loved your Lemond there's options in between the full on racing bike and this nice but still very much a cruiser sort of bike that may suit you better. It just seems like such a huge jump to go from a road racing bike to this Centrum. But of course I can't read your mind and I have not seen one in person. Just did a quick search. So it may indeed be all that a perfect commuter needs to be.