If I worried about what everyone else thought, I'd never have gotten my first recumbent. Are you going to ride a bike or a decal?

A wise person once told me that what other people think of me is actually not any of my business.

If people judge you for riding a Motobecane, tell the, to shove it. But others will judge you for riding a Trek (too many of them), Cervelo (obviously a filthy tri geek), Spesh, Giant, C-Dale... just about anything, honestly.

Don’t buy a bike (or do anything else) to make others happy; it won’t work. That said, I’d strip the decals free riding it enough to be comfortable that it wasn’t immediately defective. Bare Ti is gorgeous.