The man who killed a mother by knocking her down with his racing bike when still a teenager had described how removing his front brakes made him feel as though he were in a cycling stunt film, a court was told yesterday. Charlie Alliston is accused of killing Kim Briggs, 44, after he collided with her in Old Street, east London, in February last year, on an Olympic-style Planet X track bike with no front brakes. In the first case of a cyclist being tried for manslaughter, the Old Bailey was told that riding a bike on roads without a front braking system was illegal. Kim Briggs suffered “catastrophic” head injuries and died in hospital a week after the collision Metropolitan Police/PAAbout a year before the accident, Mr Alliston, who was 18 at the time of the accident, had tweeted about…

Source: The Times August 17, 2017 23:03 UTC