This is beautiful! OP is doing a text-book job of finding the right bike; This thread with his insights/impressions of the arious bikes will definitely help other newcomers; ....and we all can live vicariously through him, as if we were testing out all the different bikes!
For those of us who don't have one LBS locally- much less a plethora of 'em.....this is almost as much fun as doing it ourselves!
See t5hat, Bigcic? You're "giving back" to the forum, already!
