I admit enjoying those reviews, especially of the "super bikes". It's just daydream stuff, really, and you can't take the "vertically compliant but laterally stiff" gibberish too seriously. It's pretty hard to quantify how a bike rides in a review, I think. I've gone to bike shops & shows, tried a handful of bikes, made notes, figured out what I like, what I don't. I think I've tried at least one of "everything" in the last few years (alum, carbon, steel, Campy Vs Shimano vs SRAM, elec shifting, disk, etc.) I realized you can't believe the hype in a magazine, especially about such an intangible thing as how a bike rides. It's just another opinion (though they never met a bike they didn't like!)