igor

I've been fortunate in that although I bike everywhere I go, I've never had a bike stolen (knock on wood!) Only and somewhat inexplicably one rusty bolt-on front wheel. This is probably a combination of good locking techniques, usually locking up an unattractive target, and definitely a dose of good luck. One bike was cosmetically damaged but not stolen when a would-be thief tried to use my bike as leverage to break the lock, where it was locked to the railing of the front porch where I was living. The good luck? Another tenant saw this and scared him away.

Whether he deserves it or not, Igor has reached legendary status for downtown commuters. Only days after an article appears in the Toronto Sun by Brett Clarkson on bike theft, including long quotes by Igor about how he's constantly targeted as "the darkest nightmare in the western hemisphere", the very same Trinity-Bellwoods bike theft mastermind is caught by undercover cops for directing bike thieves to cut the locks off of two bikes near his shop.