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He obvs means the red one, which is the one I was referring to, you know the one that's nice but not HHS;)

Is lovely but don't see anything HHS about it.

Saw this today and screeched to a halt to take a pic. As I was drooling at the side of the road the owner returned. I asked him what model it was as I didn't recognise it. He said it was a 1954 Bentley Continental Fastback, and he opened the boot to show me it had been signed on the inside of the boot lid by the previous owner, Eric Clapton. Imagine the rock and roll shenanigans that went on in the back of this.....

I'm not defending Alliston, but I can envisage a situation where a pedestrian steps out causing an accident and it is not the fault of the cyclist, I just wondered if the courts have ever ruled as such, as it just seems the cyclists are always guilty.

Do you think all cyclists should always be able to stop in any circumstances without causing an accident, and if they cannot it is their fault?

I took it as the rider shouted as there was simply not enough time to stop, not that he had no intention of stopping. Didn't Alliston do this too, in a last second attempt to alert the ped in the hope of avoiding an accident?

I thought it was Allison's lack of brakes (and lack of remorse or any acceptance of blame) that did for him, not that he had no intention of braking and expected everyone to just get out of his way. All the braking distance stuff and comparisons with MTB's etc in that case was utter bollocks and should have been challenged and ripped apart much more than it was.

It doesn't matter if you are brakeless or run full disc brakes, if someone steps off the kerb directly into your front wheel without looking, you're going to crash unless maybe you are going at less than walking pace, and there's no point in having a bike if you have to go everywhere at walking pace or less. Would drivers accept having to go everywhere at walking pace just in case any peds step into the road?

Reaction times are key. The point that seems to have been missed in both these cases, is the courts seem unable to accept a situation where a pedestrian suddenly steps off the kerb without looking and gets injured or killed, and its not the cyclists fault. It seems that whenever a cyclist is in an accident there is always an assumption they were going too fast as they did not stop in time, yet drivers of much more deadly vehicles are not subject to the same criteria. I would totally accept the verdict in this case if it meant presumed liability was applied to drivers in the same way, but it doesn't and it won't, so it just smacks of double standards.

I don't think its going to do much to encourage Londoners and other city or town dwellers to take up cycling either, there's enough perceived danger already, without adding in being financially fucked over into the mix.

Its almost as if the logical conclusion is if you're a cyclist involved in an accident to fuck off away from the scene ASAP giving no details, or better still sack off cycling completely and buy a big fuck off 4x4, cos at least you're less likely to get hurt. What a shit state of affairs that is.

^ Interesting, I didn't know that. What's the deal with the electric skateboards/long boards? They seem even less manoeuvrable, and have the stopping distance of an oil tanker.

ah that figures, forgot about lead paint!

I speak from no level of expertise just from ownership.

Well not in my experience, I've owned one for 9 years and its the best paint job on any bike I've ever owned. The ones I regularly see on Ebay seem to hold up pretty nicely too. I've got an old Bob Jackson paint job that's great too, and Argos I've heard are great. Long lasting paint jobs are not exclusive to the far east as far as I was aware.

Mercian's paint jobs seem to stay in excellent condition for decades, what do they use? Assuming they are not using/not allowed to use the nasty paint used by mass producers in the far east.

Such dorks tho ;)

Lime-ee's for the limeys? Lame-ee's for those with no shame-ees :)...or no bike obvs.

@mashton I much prefer the older ones. I saw this today, I shouldn't like anything about this, totally ridiculous in London, but I still kinda want it.

Saw this too, original XJ6 from 1st year of release in 1968, 51 years old this year and still a handsome looking chap/cad/bounder.

And much lust for this, surely the most pretty Peugeot ever.

Drool.....

Is that by the same people who made the new table for 'The Nine Club'? They talk about it from 9-12 mins in the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIYlKOG_XbY

Back to cars, a couple of in the wild shots, a nice Fiat 124

and kerr-ching, a 959 with wanky plate to match.

Nowt wrong with Chorus, that can defo be slave. Agree with gubhi about the Dale, its just a decent bike, nothing slave about it, and super shallow drop bars just never look slave.

And white for a bike paint job can get fucked as HHSB material, we want kaleidoscope, bat-shit colour schemes that shout, not boring quarterly statements from Colin in accounts.

Bodywork looks in amazing condition on that too, it must be kept out of the rain all the time :)

Just seen this in Kennington, an old Lancia not dissolved by rain and rust? I didn't recognise it so had to look it up when I got home.

Its a Lancia Flaminia GT Coupe Superleggera. One of only of 170 made, body by Italian coach-builders Touring, and dates from about 1963. I couldn't seen any hardtops for sale, not surprising considering the rarity, but a soft top goes for £120-130,000. Holy shit!

There's fucking drifts of it in the parks, I aborted riding there immediately. It sounds like something from Ron Jeremy's CV, coming to an adult film store near you....drifts of jizz, and the sequel, face fucked through the park....

And while we're on American cars I saw these 3 ultimate cruisers today in Kings X.
A 1961 Cadillac Series 60

A 1959 Chevy Impala

A my favourite, and the coolest name. I've never seen one of these before, gangsta as fuck.
A 1959 Buick Electra 225

@Turkish its a Corvette Stingray, the 1970's one.

I've already been approached by the Beeb for when Attenborough croaks. The next series of Blue Planet is going to be much more street.

@Oliver its all year round for humans though, those bastards are not be trusted either :)

At least with pigeons its just for a season.

Its peak pigeon rutting season I notice. They're not the sharpest tools in the box, but are normally strong, able flyers, and London ones are good at leaving it until the last possible second before getting out of the way.

All that goes out the window during the rutt. Male pigeons' peripheral vision disappears, they've got nothing going on in those tiny brains apart from the constant sounding of the pigeon pwnani klaxon.

There is clearly not enough blood in a male pigeon to operate its brain and its dick at the same time, I almost shredded a few in my front wheel today.

Yo pigeons! Stop, look and listen you dumb fucks.

To be fair Sissoko has been a revelation this term too. And he's kept Eric Dier out of the team which is worth it on its own.

Get in the van!....and fuck off back to wherever you came from, is much more of a Tory Party and UKIP tag line though :)

Totally, in terms of smiles per miles if you get the grins before you've even gotten in to do battle in London traffic, you've done something right.

And the dude has clearly colour matched his T-shirt to his car, that's full commitment right there, makes me think he must be a cyclist too :)