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"or was reckless as to whether injury would be caused"
That's what they're trying to establish with all the talk about him taking his front brake off.
"What he was doing was such that all sober and reasonable people, knowing the circumstances as he knew them to be, would inevitable recognise it subjected other people to the risk of some harm resulting there from."
This section of the prosecution's argument is a textbook definition of recklessness.
Edit to clarify - legally that doesn't mean he was or wasn't reckless: that's for the jury to decide. The prosecution is arguing that he was, and is marshalling the facts towards such a view, and is using a turn of phrase that captures well the legal argument