This is why I am slow to post pictures. Campy this and Fuji that? My goodness! Anyway, last week, I did find three bikes in the trash at the curb in front of one house on my street just a couple blocks from my house. It's been years since I found a bike in anyone's trash, and to find three in one spot -- and not only that, but to beat anyone else to them, especially the scrapper/junker truckdrivers that prowl my neighborhood. In fact, an older, dumpy woman came along as I was loading the third bike into my van, and as she saw what I was doing, she said, "Oh, you're taking the bikes?" Yes, ma'am, I am, thought I to myself, and I did not offer to share. She said something else before leaving, but I did not hear her.

And I had given up on the idea of ever being just in time to catch a bike in anyone's trash in my neighborhood, so I wasn't at all cruising the streets anymore, just heading home after work and errands.

The bikes themselves are not overly special, but they are intact and mostly undamaged. A Sears Free Spirit with indexed shifters; a Columbia, and a Schwinn World Sport from Taiwan. I'll have photos and more info later this weekend.