I think your bike is a fine build and well done which is nice to see, not that I would do the same but to each his own. I only would like to bring up yet another huge hole in your very flawed thought that foot retention is not a matter of control and likening it to motorcycles is simply not comparable. When operating a motorcycle your acceleration is controlled completely with your hand acting only as a relay and the motor does the rest, as for braking that is also a hand and one foot but is a nematic action not a pressure solely reliant on your foot or hand, and yes you shift with a foot but once again you are simply triggering a mechanical action not physically shifting. Cycling is a completely different concept where your feet are your only power source with no aide of mechanics or power, and your braking the same way, to limit your power band to less than 50% of its potential becomes a matter of not only speed but control over your momentum and weight transfer of your bike. If you like platforms thats fine with me and I'm not telling you to change what you like on your bike, I'm simply asking that you don't make terribly inaccurate statements in response to others criticism. To create a thread as you have done you have to be able to accept criticism and not turn it into a slug fest because your bored at work, it only makes you seem immature and close minded. Build a bike, love it, but most importantly ride it, who cares what people think of it, although you did create an entire thread devoted to it...