The Return of Napoleon - Ride Hard, Ride Long Epi. 11

I found my stolen bike!
In Toronto over the past few weeks 3300 bikes were found in different locations around the city - all hoarded by a man named Igor Kenk. A man who would deliberately steal bikes, dismember them, and then ask theft victims if they could identify their bikes. He had bikes that were stolen more than 8 years ago.
Yesterday, went down to 30 Ordinance Rd to search through the bike rubble to find my Raleigh Serengeti - the bike I had shipped out from Calgary that I had no proof for - no receipt, no serial number, nothing. The only thing I brought down to convince TO police was my laptop - opened to my video blog.
Much to my surprise the bike was there and the TO police happily gave it back to me. My bike is pretty much intact, its missing it's pedals and it's bell - but I'm pretty sure the brakes are new - so i'm not too disappointed. Amazing!
I'm going to register my bike now and hopefully Igor wont steal it again.
Thanks for everyone's support, It means a lot. I probably would have lost faith a while ago.

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[proximus79]

I bought my bike from Igor and he later stole my back tire :(