OK, maybe we are defined more by our bike lifts than by our cars.
Stan, what we've got here is two bikers, two different bike lifts, and two very different budgets.
I have only modest expectations for a bike lift.
I went with the store-bought rope-and-pulleys contraption. Six wood screws into the rafter and done. One bike at a time, but the slower pace lets me better appreciate parts of my garage I might have otherwise overlooked.
I guess if I had to hoist the bike more than eight feet in the air or do two at a time, I'd probably have to completely rethink how my bike lift is set up.
Maybe the reason I'm happy as a clam with my lesser bike lift is the agreement I have with my wife. She leans her bike against the garage shelving when returning from a ride and notifies me there's a bike that needs hoisting.
She doesn't have to deal with ropes or pulleys, and I get to experience how bikes were hoisted back in the early days of bicycle storage.
The more I hoist her bike manually, the more it teaches me.