Cyclists are “idiots waging war on normality” – Jeremy Clarkson

Love him!   He is the consumate idiot when he wants to be and has made a very good living out of being outragous for the sake of it.  And now let us not forget who he is writing for - The Sun.  Need I say more

Ban Jeremy Clarkson

It's his followers I can't stand. 

You lost me as soon as The Sun was mentioned.

Thing is, Jezza is right about a lot of it.  As we know, there are thousands of cyclinsts in London who ride like complete assholes.  So we shouldn't be surprised if there are people who dislike us because of it.   And it is a political statement in a huge way here,  in a way it's not in many other places.  I don't know much about Copenhagen, but I lived in Bruge for a while, and cycling is a complete non-event.  Virtually veryone does it as a way to get around, and many additionally as sport/exercise.  And poor/anti social cycling is cubject to the same lack of tolleration and poor/anti social everything else.  Talking about it is regarded as about as interesting as discussing the latest addition to one's toothpast top collection.

I was reminded of this thread on todays ride when white van man passed me with cm's to spare ( then turn off). 

So it  may not be real and just a front to sell clicks but thats not how its taken by the empty heads who read the nonsense. 

Fair enough Brooksby, sorry you got caught in the backwash of my rant.

It was late, and you had to mention Katie Hopkins... 

In the interests of accuracy can you please change the head line to read:

"Cyclists are.... - Jeremy Clarkson's ghostwriter" 

It occurs to me that a hundred years ago, newspapers would have been commenting that people buying automobiles were waging a war on normality. Just saying... "Normality" appears to be "whatever the majority of people do".

Infuriating stuff to read but the optimist in me says maybe it's better we have idiotic pieces like this for the penis-size issue drivers out there to vent, rather than them take their pent up aggression out on a real life unsuspecting cyclist. 

What would Matt LeBlanc say?

I've tried so hard not to post a comment on here... Look: Clarkson is paid a lot of money to express and to create outrage on a given subject , with the sole aim of creating clicks and making money. He doesn't need to actually believe what he's writing, and I doubt anyone (even he, by now) knows what his real opinion is.  Like Katie Hopkins in dad jeans.

Obligatory link to Stewart Lee on Top Gear https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7CnMQ4L9Pc

But yes, his outrageous polically incorrect opinions that he has every week to a deadline ...

I remember yet another Top Gear episode whose goal was to determine once for all which car was the best. All time. 

Two finalists were Ford Transit and a typical Japanese Honda bike because both contributed to let people just get the stuff to one's door. In other words, the best car is the one you don't have. 

Clarkson. LOL. It's just noise.

I'm a petrol head like JC, I'm also a motorcyclist and a cycling enthusiast, I love anything with wheels. JC is just a whiffy leftover from an age long gone, and well, he's a big nobhead too. Nothing he says can be taken with any credibility or seriously.

“So let’s just work that out,” he writes. “The bike needs to be two feet from the kerb to be safe. It is a foot wide and it needs five feet of clearance. That’s eight feet for a bicycle, which on most normal British roads leaves two feet for the car or truck to get past safely.”

Isn't that the point? You can't squeeze past a person on a bike; you have to overtake using the other lane. As a car or truck is wider than 2 foot.

There are two possibilities: either the Sun have threatened to drop him unless he gets more clicks, or he's got a new book coming out.

Either way, he's an arrogant, pathetic producer puncher.

I think he's funny. I don't agree with him, but he does make me laugh. As Stewart Lee says, he holds his views weekly, in the Sun, for money. That millions of people are unable to see that and follow the cult-of-Clarkson says more about them than him.

He's brilliant, love him to bits. The simple answer to all those who don't like him, don't watch or read about him because regardless of your views on him he ain't going to change.

Into his fifties, career on the wane, pulling power diminishing in proportion to his weight; I'd be looking for cheap shots too.

Another public-school-educated member of the 1% who claims to speak for the "normal" silent majority despite not having had to work a nine-to-five job for decades, if ever. People like him and Nigel Farage represent everything that is sick and wrong in the British psyche. And yet, like Toad of Toad Hall, people love them. Ha ha ha, he said something rude about a group to which I don't belong, making me feel a bigger man by comparison, give him a knighthood. Pathetic.

I actually enjoy his brand of humour. The only problem is when people mistake his rhetoric for sincerety.