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Igor Kenk’s stolen bicycles will ride again (high schoolers are making sure of it)

By Monika Warzecha
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Ever wonder what happened to the collection of stolen bicycles belonging (well, sort of) to bike-hoarder extraordinaire Igor Kenk? They’ve found a good home, according to CBC. The bulk of the almost 3,000 unclaimed bikes, partial bikes and frames were given to the Cabbagetown Youth Centre back in 2010, which gave the damaged ones to the Toronto District School Board—who, in turn, passed them to Central Commerce Collegiate Institute on Shaw Street south of Harbord (which, oddly, is just a few blocks north of Kenk’s original headquarters at Queen and Strachan). The school put the hundreds of bikes in empty classrooms—called “the boneyard” by students—and started up a bike repair class in September. The class is in hot demand with the high schoolers, who get to take their bike home at the end of the year. Good thing, thanks to Kenk’s prolific thievery, the school has enough bikes to last a decade. [CBC]

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