would the Chameloen be the sort of bike you could happily ride all the time ?
Yep, more or less. I used mine for commuting - I found it OK to fold every night on the commuter train, for club runs where it would easily keep up with the normal CTC ride, on audaxes where the rear suspension made it very comfortable, and for general riding for fun. It's never going to be as fast as some new carbon exotica race bike but it's at least as good as a lightish audax bike and I found it quite nippy. Indeed, I won a small local hill climb event on it one year. Load carrying - I didn't try proper touring with it but could carry a reasonable amount on the rear...never tried the front touring fork and LR. Also, I wouldn't use it off road (see below).
In the end I converted it to a road going SS and it made a really really nice bike like that....until the frame snapped in half. This was a 2005(?) model (which replaced my previously broken 2001 models) so I'd hope that they will have made it a bit stronger by now.