Calfee tetra pro (adventure geo). If it’s good enough for LeMond, it’s good enough for me 
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Let’s say yes. The bike you choose never breaks or wears down.
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Santa Cruz Blur TR
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Penny Farthing.
Descending the lava fields in Lanzarote at 90kph with impunity would be awesome.
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OPEN of some sort. Multiple wheels, swap forks and bars out, mountain bike to road, yep.
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Some kind of hover bike, obviously.
(Future history is still history.)
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Has to be the MTB for me. The roadie is just a tool for when I can’t ride MTB.
I’m not sure I’d choose anything over my current one at the minute. It’s a little old (2017), but it was ahead of its time in terms of geo and platform. It peddles well, handles the steeps and gnar well, jumps well. Without knowing what the modern equivalent would be precisely…I’ll keep this one.
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Fairlight Secan 2.5 with 2x11 and hub dynamo. Definitely 2 sets of wheels though!
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This or the Faran, should I decide to become a world tourer or just fancy loading on 4 panniers.
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Moots Routt RSL
Able to ride on multiple surfaces given the clearance for 45 mm tires…but still has decent enough geometry to enjoy on the road. Geometry is not so aggressive that I would ‘grow out of it’ as I loose flexibility or no longer want to be so low. Titanium so I wouldn’t worry about it getting dinged up over the next 50 years (as well as the increased comfort)
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I’m a bit torn between an all-surface drop bar bike or a mtn bike. It would be hard to beat my custom Steel English where I use 3 wheelsets: 700x25, 700x35 and 650x48. This covers the vast majority of my riding, but I would miss pure mtn biking and my winter fatbike obsession…
I’d have to go with my Diverge with a bunch of different wheelsets and tires. I could live without my cross bike and road bike, but would definitely miss my MTB in this case.
I’d also have both Eagle (Mullet) and EXPLR drivetrain options and a nice variety of front chainrings to cover all styles of riding.
Has to be this one:
Schwinn DX Crusier
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Canyon Ultimate CFR with DA’s and two pairs of C36 wheelsets for the road and gravel, thank you very much. 
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I’m with you on the XC hardtail concept. I’d lean more towards flatbar gravel, but same concept.
Anyway, also re-posting my response to this question on Weight Weenies:
"There’s no such thing as one bike for life. Chasing said bike is a fools’ game.
Even taking materials and design out of it (dropouts, spacing, standards, interfaces, etc.) the simple fact is our bodies change over time as do our tastes and locations/terrain. Not to mention that bike frames can and do fail due to defects, wear or impact and oftentimes they fail in such a way that replacement makes more sense (for a bunch of reasons) than repair."
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I own an UPPER and this would be my answer. I have gravel and road wheels currently, need to get a 650b set to get rowdy.
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Giant TCR for me, does absolutely everything I need it to do. Has survived 220 miles of Belgian cobbles, got me round the Marmotte, LEJOG ride, swiss army knife of bikes.
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That also sounds like a good idea. A lot of gravel have a geo that’s quite close to an old-school hardtail.
I’m definitely in the aero gravelly camp. 3T or Open…something like that. Cross, gravel, and crits.
If I were in the mountains and rode a mountain bike more than once every 5 years my answer would definitely be different.
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