Iceland’s ‘bike whisperer’: the vigilante who finds stolen bicycles – and helps thieves change - eviltoast
Bjartmar Leósson says at first he was motivated by his anger at Reykjavík’s bike thieves. Now he empathises with them
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    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.

    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.

    While not a globally renowned cycling city, two-wheeled transport is on the rise in Reykjavík, which has a population of 139,875 people.

    “Bjartmar Leósson is doing a great job finding and collecting bikes that have been stolen,” said the Reykjavík police chief, Guðmundur Pétur Guðmundsson.

    He he says he now sees the bike theft problem is often driven by addiction, aided by long rehab waiting lists and closures during the summer.

    He put notes through neighbours’ doors and before long he had a description of a person believed to have been seen with his bike in the city centre.

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