http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41306738>A cyclist who knocked over and killed a 44-year-old woman in east London has been sentenced to 18 months in a young offenders' institution.>Charlie Alliston, then 18, was travelling on a fixed-wheel track bike with no front brakes before crashing into Kim Briggs in February last year.It seems to me that if cyclists don't voluntarily only ride bikes with brakes front and rear then a much more draconian solution will be implemented. Cycle shops must stop profiting from fashionable recklessness and perhaps it might even be justifiable to voluntarily take out insurance policies before they too are mandatory.
It's time to stand up and take responsibility as a community.
