03 December 2009

“[Shi] was riding a rally bike down Pereira, going 25 miles per hour,” Sergeant Steve Monsanto of the UCI police department said. Shi was also biking with earphones and riding on the wrong side of the road without a helmet.

Shi swerved to avoid a bicyclist riding with the green directly in his path. The tire of Shi’s brakeless bike hit the curb, sending him over the handlebars and onto the pavement.

The ambulance pulled away, the scene cleared and the crowd broke up. As students departed, Gabriel Borjon, who had been at the scene, asked what many others might have been wondering: “Who would ride a bike without brakes?”

Evolution even affects asian uci students.