Police in Toronto have seized up to 2,000 stolen bicycles from a theft ring they busted last week but the huge find has prompted authorities to look for a temporary impound area.

The police garage is not big enough to store and display some 1,000 recovered bikes so the search for a bigger space where owners can go and claim their bicycles is on, according to Superintendent Ruth White as cited by CBC.ca Tuesday.

White said the police are cataloguing, identifying, and tagging the bikes so they could be returned to the rightful owners.

Seizure of the bikes followed the July 16 arrest of Igor Kenk, 49, for allegedly directing Jean Laveau, 47, to cut the locks of two bikes near Trinity-Bellwoods Park. Police officers obtained search warrants for Kenk's shop, The Bicycle Clinic, in Queen Street West; his home in Yorkville; and a building on Dovercourt Road.

The places raided on Sunday and Monday yielded hundreds of bikes as well as cocaine and marijuana.

Police said they will search more places where Kenk's alleged theft ring stored stolen bikes.