It was with a heavy heart I finally read Mr Clarkson's latest missive, entitled:-
Bums on saddles, folks - let's rout the pushbike Bolsheviks.
With the accompanying cartoon with a man on an exercise bike saying "I'm practising being smug and aggressive".
Once you get through the few thousand words of hyperbole, stereotyping, crass metaphors and all the other Clarkson vitriol, which I do quite enjoy, you end up with this:-
There's only one way they (cyclists) can be defeated. And that's for normal people to start riding bicycles. We need to swell their ranks with moderates, people who ride a bike because they've had a drink and because taxi's are too expensive. Ordinary people in t-shirts and jeans and with no stupid helmets.
That's the whole bloody point.
Had the stooopid bitch, last week, spent any time away from her steering wheel she might not have been so keen to run a cyclist off the road.
How many journeys are under 2 miles?
How lazy and fat is the nation becoming?
How clogged up are the roads?
How expensive are cars to run?
Even Clarkson has now bought a bicycle, t'is a strange world we live in.
Bums on saddles, folks - let's rout the pushbike Bolsheviks.
With the accompanying cartoon with a man on an exercise bike saying "I'm practising being smug and aggressive".
Once you get through the few thousand words of hyperbole, stereotyping, crass metaphors and all the other Clarkson vitriol, which I do quite enjoy, you end up with this:-
There's only one way they (cyclists) can be defeated. And that's for normal people to start riding bicycles. We need to swell their ranks with moderates, people who ride a bike because they've had a drink and because taxi's are too expensive. Ordinary people in t-shirts and jeans and with no stupid helmets.
That's the whole bloody point.
Had the stooopid bitch, last week, spent any time away from her steering wheel she might not have been so keen to run a cyclist off the road.
How many journeys are under 2 miles?
How lazy and fat is the nation becoming?
How clogged up are the roads?
How expensive are cars to run?
Even Clarkson has now bought a bicycle, t'is a strange world we live in.