I just discovered this thread.

I gave that bike to sailorbenjamin a few months ago. He and I disassembled it.

It had been sitting in my basement for a year or three. A neighbor emailed me and told me to pick it up, as he was moving out of town. The Atala and also a French mixte from the 50's were outside where they had been for years, collecting rust.

I had promised it to jonwvara, but we never figured out a way to get it to him for free. Neither of us thought it was worth shipping, and Jon said I can do what I like with it if I never got it to him, so this is where it is now.

I could ask my former neighbor for the previous part of the story.

I had this model bike. In fact, it was my first ten speed and got me into cycling in a big way. I got mine new in 1975, and this appears to be from the same period. Mine was white, in the 23" size. It was taken from me by force, at knife-point, a year or two later. I grew up in NYC in the bad old days.