gravity bike
n.— «Kevin Martin, a 20-year-old Milpitas man, was killed Saturday near Santa Cruz, after he allegedly lost control of a bicycle with no pedals while riding downhill, and hit a sport utility vehicle.…The fatal crash occurred as Martin was traveling in a prone position about two feet off the ground on what’s known as a “gravity bike.”» —“Milpitas man killed in ‘gravity bike’ accident” by Ian Bauer Milpitas Post (California) Aug. 30, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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this report is wrong. one, he never lost controll he just didn’t see the suv, two there is no stopsign at that intersection and never has been. third, neither one of them was going the speed limit. fourth, he was from newark, not milpitas. fifth, he was living with us in boulder creek.