So you want to buy a touring bicycle.

I sampled a website of Touring bicycle photos and counted how many of each there are. There bike were all set up for heavy touring.

• 19 Surly Long Haul Trucker
• 15 Trek 520
• 7 Cannondale T800
• 6 Thorn Nomad
• 5 Roberts Roughstuff
• 5 Rivendell Atlantis
• 4 Thorn Raven
• 4 Fuji Touring
• 4 Cannondale T2000
• 4 Bike Friday New World Tourist
• 3 Waterford 1900
• 3 Villiger Cabonga
• 3 VSF T400
• 3 Specialized Expedition
• 3 Novara Safari
• 3 Koga Worldtraveller
• 3 Koga Randonneur
• 3 Bruce Gordon Rock 'n Road
  
• 2 Windsor Tourist
• 2 True North Touring
• 2 Trek 720
• 2 Trek 620
• 2 Thorn XTC
• 2 Thorn Club Tour
• 2 Surly Cross Check
• 2 Steve Rex Touring
• 2 Santos Travel Master
• 2 Rocky Mountain Bicycles Sherpa
• 2 Robin Mather Touring
• 2 Novara Randonee
• 2 Motion Americano
• 2 Miyata 1000LT
• 2 Marinoni Turismo
• 2 Kona Kilauea
• 2 Jamis Aurora
• 2 Giant OCR Touring
• 2 Giant Expedition Travel
• 2 Devinci Destination
• 2 Devinci Caribou
• 2 Devinci Cariboo
• 2 Dawes Ultra Galaxy
• 2 Dawes Super Galaxy
• 2 Dawes Sardar
• 2 Dawes Galaxy
• 2 Cannondale T700
• 2 Cannondale RT1000
• 2 Bike Friday Pocket Llama

There were many other bikes that where one off

Some of the more interesting where:

• KHS Montana Tour
• Koga World Traveler
• da Vinci Touring
• Woodrup Giro Touring
• Vivente World Randonneur
• Velotek Touring
• Urbanite Touring
• Roberts Touring
• George Longstaff Touring
• Gardin Touring
• Cycles Touring
• Dawes World Tour
• Cannondale Touring
• Co Motion Americano
• Bob Jackson World Tour
• Bike Friday, New World Tourist
• Bike Friday Traveler Q

I There were also a lot of other mountain and road bikes in the list. You can tour on most anything, but with a bicycle built for touring you are more likely to have the toe and heel clearance that you need.