Jeremy Clarkson... 'Road Tax??'

[magnatom]

That's me back from my trip to Boston, and back to commuting....

Did I miss anything whilst I was away.....

I'm going to have to find something else to do, now that Helmet cameras have gone mainstream! I have noticed I am getting significantly more abuse on my youtube videos recently!

 

[661-Pete]

This thread has turned into something which is very little to do with Commuting, at the very least.
I suggest a move to P&L .... if not more severe action.

 

[As Easy As Riding A Bike]

This thread has turned into something which is very little to do with Commuting, at the very least.
I suggest a move to P&L .... if not more severe action.

It should probably have been in P&L right from the start - not too much about commuting in the initial post.

 

[dellzeqq]

he hasn't knocked a cyclist off or run over one nor has he encouraged anybody to do that sort of thing. .

actually he has.......

 

[subaqua]

Let's hope that your wife never has to open the front door to a policeman who informs here there has been 'a tragic accident'!

If she does, then she'll understand why the forum reacts as it id does!

It's not the programme that's the problem, but the large percentage of 'drivers' who don't/can't/won't accept that cyclists have the same rights to be on the raod as they do.

what like when the doc said " we are really sorry but the baby is dead. when my wife got splatted by a cyclist on a crossing."

yeah been there done that which is why the obblocks that gets spouted about cyclists don't kill, really gets on my tits.

perhaps if all those who are up in arms about TG spent as much time writing to Mps councillors action groups etc as they did on here, all cyclists would likely be in a better position .

 

[Simon_m]

I wonder if the caravan forums were going on and on like this one is, when he was joking about them

 

[subaqua]

And the police are not immune from a car-centred attitude.


of course. because if you get pulled for any offence on a bicycle its never your fault its always somebody elses.

e.g.
I went through the red light because its "safer" to do that. : sniggers:





and having rewatched the little section on TG

at least hammond admits there are "militant" cyclists

 

[subaqua]

I wonder if the caravan forums were going on and on like this one is, when he was joking about them

PMSL probably not. they just shrugged and got on with life.

the same for the lorry drivers.

my dad laughed and said he knew a lot of drivers who fitted the stereotype portrayed.

 

[turnout]

Classic - posted as I was writing my reply!!!

It's a government-backed report, not a report carried out by the Daily mail.

Any chance of reining in your sarcasm and insults?

 

[Dave Davenport]

Does anyone honestly believe that the dickheads who pass too close on purpose and/or yell abuse, quite often involving 'pay some road tax!' are not influenced/encouraged by Clarkson and his ilk?

 

[turnout]

If stuff on TV doesn't influence people I guess advertisers are wasting an awful lot of money.

 

[John the Monkey]

It would be funny if it was absurd - if the very idea that someone might claim a greater right to the road because they pay VED was laughable, if the chance that someone might deliberately overtake you too close, or swerve at you merely because you were on a pedal cycle was patently ridiculous.

I submit that we aren't there yet, in the UK.

 

[John the Monkey]

PMSL probably not. they just shrugged and got on with life.

the same for the lorry drivers.

my dad laughed and said he knew a lot of drivers who fitted the stereotype portrayed.

You really don't see the difference in vulnerability between those groups and cyclists, then?

 

[jack the lad]

Does anyone honestly believe that the dickheads who pass too close on purpose and/or yell abuse, quite often involving 'pay some road tax!' are not influenced/encouraged by Clarkson and his ilk?

Perhaps it is the other way round. Those people would exist without Clarkson, but he might not exist without them.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Any chance of reining in your sarcasm and insults?

Now that is ironic.