The Magic Bike is indeed the GF01. But I actually love all three of my bikes, they are all a little magic.

The Magic Bike moniker came about because I'm pretty new to cycling- coming up on year 3 in a few weeks. I started with an entry-level women's aluminum Trek but 10 months later, I was interested in endurance distances and wanted a "nicer" bike, I thought maybe I'd really blow the budget and spend $2000, lol. I read a lot here on BF and the consensus seemed to be that getting a better bike wouldn't make any substantial difference in my cycling. Then I test rode the BMC GF01, had to have it, and of course electronic shifting. Blew my original idea of blowing my budget out of the water.

Then once I got that bike everything about my cycling improved instantly. It seemed completely magic to me and that's how I started calling it the Magic Bike. Lol, many of my original beginner cycling friends are still convinced it is actually magical. But really it was the bike that make it all seem possible to me. It almost "gave" cycling to me if that makes sense. Not likely it would be quite as magic to everyone. More like for me, it was the right bike at the right time.