brakeless

My brakeless period has always been easy to recall.

Louis was like a brakeless railroad engine running downhill.

A skeleton is a small, brakeless sled on which riders lie with their heads at the front.

The brakeless retractable main gear used a simple manual jackscrew.

Rather, his production races like a brakeless locomotive from overture to tragic ending.

Don't get me started on the thrill of riding the track, fixed and brakeless, wheels inches from your neighbour.

It is a race specifically for brakeless, fixed-gear bicycles.

Mona is sent to her doom in a brakeless Yugo launched off a mountain road.

Some mechanics leave customers careering away brakeless.

Unless countries can help their people adjust to this new world, globalization is going to become synonymous with "a brakeless train wreaking havoc."

Many urban fixed-gear riders think brakes are not strictly necessary, and brakeless fixed riding has a cult status in some areas.

The premise is simple: ride a brakeless bike down a very steep mountain, racing against other equally foolhardy bikers.

Enderby was brakeless.

I'd done all I could to bring the millennium, as in computer literacy, careening into Maggody like a brakeless semi.

But it is at the end, as the vessels slide, huge and brakeless, into shipping lanes and narrow docks, that the most delicate navigation takes place.

Henry sat for quite a long time thinking about the conversation between Elinor and her mother as they hurtled down the Paso della Lagastrella, brakeless.

Bicycle messengers, the speeding bane of New York's pedestrians and motorists, have a new weapon - the brakeless bicycle.

Falco's prose is cold and brisk, with occasional flashes of hard-boiled eloquence, and the story hurtles like a brakeless truck toward its bloody denouement.

The most famous ski racer of all-time, Jean-Claude Killy, has compared this two-minute blast to riding a brakeless bicycle down a mountainside.

Street riders tend to run brakeless, for a number of reasons; for example, they claim that barspins are smoother, and that they have more control over the bike.

For riders who perform brakeless skid-stops, it is best to select prime-numbered chainrings (e.g. 41, 43 or 47 teeth) to guarantee that rear tyre wear is spread evenly.

The fact that many fixie riders ride brakeless in defiance of local law could also be viewed as a contributing factor to its popularity; it provides an outlet for minor rebellion.

After this initial competition, Moisant collided his brakeless Blériot with another plane while both aircraft were taxiing causing it to flip over, but had repairs completed in time for the next event.

Mira Friedlaender Park Slope, Brooklyn To the Editor: As a longtime traffic safety advocate, I shudder to think of cyclists riding "brakeless" bicycles in any high-traffic-density area.

Then, still bare-chested, he picked up the walkie which lay on the bedtable beside the pocket watch (four-sixteen now, and how the time seemed to be rushing, like a brakeless car plunging down a hill toward a busy intersection).