You can feel it in the air here in Atlanta. Spring.

The crocuses are a foot high. The bluebirds are past apartment hunting and now do the nasty in full view. The sun is a little higher in the sky each day. I said to my wife last Saturday morning that it was bike season. Then I renewed the CL bike ads that had been laying there like a lox since New Year's.

The bluebirds have it right--four bikes flew the coop in the last three days.

First, the 1983 Paramount. A guy called me from New Hampshire. About one of the other bikes. He wanted a bike to keep here in Atlanta for when he visited family. We talked, he said he would probably take it. While we were talking, I asked him what he rode everyday. 'A 1966 Paramount' he replied. Immediately after we hung up I smacked myself upside the head and called him back. 'You should look at my Paramount on CL' I told him. He did.

He called me back and asked me 'Are you MRMW from BF?' Then he identified himself--its PastorBobninh. Small world. And here's the Paramount:



These three bikes left the nest too:

The '82 Schwinn Voyager went to a NYC bound June grad hipster looking for a road bike, who rides track bikes and dismounts in some convoluted legs a jumble jump forward over the drop bars (don't ask--but thank god he didn't smash the bike before he bought it!) who promised to never fixie it.



The '89 Schwinn 564 went to a GA Tech grad student as a commuter:



And the early nineties East Hill sized Trek 820 went to a lad of ten who already loves to bike:



Still in residence is my owned since new 1978 Fuji Sports 10. Its so pretty, maybe the prettiest gaspipe road bike still around. Ok, I'm prejudiced, just a little...but still, its got to go. Its place has been taken by the '84 Miyata Six Ten that's almost finished its winter rebuild.



So, what bikes have come and gone out your way?