Riding a bicycle without brakes
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2017 3:21 pm
When reading the recent case about the death of Kim Biggs i kept seeing references to the fact that Charlie Alliston's bike had no front brake. I was horrified when I realised that he had no rear brake either, but that because he was riding a bike with a fixed wheel, he only required a front brake to be legal. A fixed wheel appears to be regarded as a brake? I rode a bike with a fixed wheel as a teenager, and there was no way I could have slowed that bike down in any meaningful way without using brakes. Surely a change in the law is called for?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08 ... ans-death/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08 ... ans-death/