There was a time when I felt I had to own every steel Author Magic from the ARP line. Back then, my younger self nervously trawled through every local classifieds site I could find. No one was selling, and I was sinking into helplessness and emptiness. 🔍😵💫
Then I sent the wish out into the universe, and it took pity on me. Within a few weeks, my workshop lit up in yellow, and I ended up with three bikes at once. Including the most interesting one of them all — an exceptionally well-preserved Author Magic 01 with its original rigid fork and catalogue-spec Shimano Deore LX build. 💛❤️
Nothing lasts forever, so I eventually came to the conclusion that having so many yellow bikes in the collection no longer made much sense. One by one, I sold them all, except for the 01. It stood alone in the workshop for a long time, but in the end its time came too. My path leads elsewhere. This March, we said goodbye. 👋