Specialized Enduro: Toyota Landcruiser (capable off-road, and hardly ever off road )
Marin Lucas Valley: BMW 3-Series diesel (supposedly high-end, but in reality a joe average machine)
I'd say my road bike is an E-type Jaguar. Fast but old fashioned. It's a 105 equipped 531 machine.
My MTB is like an early 1990's motocross bike - outdated but it's the rider that counts not the bike and I can beat anyone on a new fancy bike so long as they don't have unfair advantages like youth or fitness.
My tourer is like a Morris Minor. I bumble about the country lanes on it.
My everyday bike is like a Ford Focus. It does the job of getting me around, and this is the bike that gets most money spent on it.
My shopping bike is like a tartan trolley that older people have.
My spare tourer and spare MTB are a sort of personal cycle museum.
My commuter (a ridgeback velocity) has got to be something like a Toyota corolla, a bit boring but touch wood reliable. My Sirrus is maybe a MR2 a bit faster but still reliable. I like to think my Bianchi is something like a Ferrari, an Italian Stallion but I'm only that fast in my dreams.
And judging by the lists above i need another bike
My Marin is a bit like this.
My KMX is a bit like this, not technically a car but the pic is nice and really sums it up!
The rest of my collection is a bit like this.
My Thorn Nomad is a long wheelbase Landrover, with roof tent, spot lights, dust snorkel, winch wrapped with rope, shovel on the side, a sticker from the Masai Mara game reserve and obviously from the dust and dings can tell a few stories around the camp fire.
roadie is a ford mondeo and mtb/commuter is an ageing volvo estate. I have a rusting heap of cr@p under cover in the back yeard which might once hve been a ford escort, but nobody can quite remember.
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