The same foot forward thing wasn't meant as sarcasm -- it really does make sense that you only need a partial bash guard for grinding.

The whole road crank thing is what boggles my mind. It's not that I think it belongs on 144 BCD cranks. It's that it can be had for $20 on BMX cranks. Maybe there's a big market for this thing, but it wouldn't have occurred to me to manufacture it.