# nobrakes in the news
**URL:** https://fixed.org.au/t/nobrakes-in-the-news/69877
**Category:** Linkblog
**Created:** [August 14, 2017, 8:31pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/nobrakes-in-the-news/69877 "2017-08-14T20:31:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@diddy](https://fixed.org.au/u/diddy)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2017, 8:31pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/nobrakes-in-the-news/69877/1 "2017-08-14T20:31:29Z")
Be careful out there.
> **['Dangerous' cyclist killed pedestrian then blamed crash on her, court told](https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/aug/14/cyclist-charlie-alliston-killed-pedestrian-blamed-crash-kim-briggs-court-told)**
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> Charlie Alliston had been riding a fixed-gear track bicycle with no front brake, which is not legal on the road without modification
> The defendant had been riding a black Planet X carbon-frame fixed-gear cycle, a type more commonly seen racing at the Olympic velodrome, jurors were told. Such bikes used by the likes of Sir Chris Hoy and Laura Trott can only legally be taken on to the streets if fitted with a front brake, jurors heard.
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> If Alliston’s bike had proper brakes he would have been able to avoid the collision with the HR consultant, the prosecutor Duncan Penny QC said.
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> …
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> Penny told jurors: “The crown suggests that what the defendant was doing – riding a fixed-wheel bicycle without a front brake through a busy area of central London at nearly 20mph at lunchtime when hazards, such as pedestrians stepping out into the road, might well be expected to occur in front of him requiring him to react – was dangerous.
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> “What he was doing was such that all sober and reasonable people, knowing the circumstances as he knew them to be, would inevitably recognise it subjected other people to the risk of some harm resulting therefrom.”
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### Author:  [@familyguy](https://fixed.org.au/u/familyguy)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2017, 8:49pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/nobrakes-in-the-news/69877/2 "2017-08-14T20:49:52Z")
nobr ains in the news…
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### Author:  [@heavymetal](https://fixed.org.au/u/heavymetal)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2017, 8:50pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/nobrakes-in-the-news/69877/3 "2017-08-14T20:50:49Z")
The kid sounds like an a-grade twat.
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### Author:  [@P\_N20](https://fixed.org.au/u/P_N20)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2017, 8:58pm UTC](https://fixed.org.au/t/nobrakes-in-the-news/69877/4 "2017-08-14T20:58:47Z")
> [@heavymetal](#):
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> The kid sounds like an a-grade twat.
This. What a fucking moron.