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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Matthew Dresch

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Grieving dad calls for ban on death trap kits that boost bikes speed after son s death - The Untold Story

The heartbroken father of a teen killed riding a powerful dirt e-bike is calling for a ban on conversion kits that can boost the speed of ordinary bikes and e-bikes to 45mph.

Richard Murray is terrified other people will die while using the souped-up “death traps”.

His son Owen David Jones was 17 when he suffered a catastrophic brain injury coming off a pal’s high-powered Sur-Ron dirt e-bike at up to 30mph last May.

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