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Anonymous no longer, the Bikeman’s legacy is being carried forward by his family, and close to 90 disadvantaged and deserving Montreal kids will once again receive new bicycles, helmets and locks in the spring through the annual Sun Youth giveaway he started.

Only after his death two months ago at 93 was the identity of the Bikeman, entrepreneur Avi Morrow, finally revealed to the public.

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Morrow had been responsible for an annual rite of spring in the city for the last 34 years, in which he gave away over 1,700 bikes and accessories — estimated to have cost him about $600,000 — but he chose never to be around for the presentations at Sun Youth.

“It was always about the giving, never about the limelight,” Sun Youth co-founder Sid Stevens says. “There are people who donate two dozen eggs and want to see their names plastered on the front page of newspapers. Then there was Avi Morrow, in a class all his own. I have never met anyone quite like him.”