Posted on 01/02/2024 10:15:43 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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It all started in 2019, when Bjartmar Leósson started to see a rise in bike theft in Reykjavík. Rather than accepting that once a bicycle was stolen it had disappeared forever, the bus driver and self-confessed “bike nerd” decided to start tracking them down and returning them to their rightful owners.Four years and, he estimates, hundreds of salvaged bikes later, the 44-year-old has developed a reputation in the Icelandic capital among cyclists and potential bike thieves. Known as the Reykjavík “bike whisperer”, people across his home city turn to him for help to find their missing bicycles, tools and even cars. Often, he says, bike thieves hand over bikes without being asked and some former bike thieves have started to help him.
“It’s like a little snowball that got really big really fast,” says Leósson, whose other nicknames include “the bike cop”, “bike priest” and “bicycle Jesus”.
... His challenge, which is due to finish at the end of the month, will see him ride a "1914 BSA Huntingdon Cycle Core" bike, he said."It comes complete with a rifle strapped to the handlebars and a grenade in the back ammunition pouch - both decommissioned, of course," said Mr Bedford.
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Pretty terrible pointing the business end of that thing right at your face. The Darwin shotgun rack.
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