Imagine your new Lamborghini racing down the road, the wind tousling your hair, the tires straining through a corner, the adrenaline pumping.

And then it starts to rain. This is a problem: your Lambo is a bicycle.

A $32,000 bicycle, no less. And you hate it when it gets dirty.

Through the decades, automobiles and two-wheel (or one-wheel) conveyances lacking motors have coexisted, usually peacefully. And today’s racecars and racing bikes have some technology, engineering and style in common. So it’s perhaps not surprising that some of the most advanced premium bicycles are designed by, or sold by, automobile companies.

Ferrari has had a longstanding association with Colnago, a maker of road-racing bikes in Cambiago, Italy. McLaren once had an arrangement with Specialized, an American bike maker, for a limited production run. Volkswagen has sold Trek editions of some cars, with bike included. Porsche’s current pair of bicycles come out of a partner’s plant in Germany, and at one point Audi sold a limited-edition bike with a wooden frame.