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“For my 40th my brother tracked down the exact model of bike I had stolen when I was nineteen. Not a similar one — the same frame, the same year, the same slightly ugly green. He found it on an auction site abroad and had it shipped.
I had not mentioned that bike in twenty years. I did not know he had registered it at the time. He said he remembered because I had been so calm about it, which apparently worried him more than shouting would have.
It is not a better bike than the one I own now. That is not really the point of it.”
Where to get something like it
A specific model and year of road bike, found second-hand