Peee eSSSS Ayyyyy Top Gear this Sunday – Jezzer rides a bike this week…

Act your age, get a car!

Oh dear. I’m only watching this so I can have some background tomorrow. I absolutely despair.

SOH required tonight!

At least Boardman can take a joke! Love the price tags flapping around.

its filmed on a sunday for the London bit, to quiet !

Did you apply toothpaste as a yoof? Not heard that before.

Bloody glad I don’t ride in London though

OK the start of the article wasn’t very funny but it’s highlighting some very good points at the moment.

I love riding in London and much as they ham everything else up, bus drivers are generally some of the better drivers on London Street s. And of course good riding keeps you out of conflict with them as with any other road users

They are spot on about bus drivers though. There are some right misanthropists behind the wheel in those bloody great things

London riding is fine, a sight safer than negotiating all the potholes around here.

Hmmm, I think I’d rather watch a compilation of “Star In A Reasonably Priced Car”, even the one with Geri Haliwell.

Yes – I can see that there were some ‘small issues’ with their lane positioning. It’s just not funny though – they’ve got the opportuntity to get a message across to x million drivers in the UK and they’re just pissing about. I *know* that’s the TG way, but still…

proper lol at the ‘read and green, learn the difference’!

Righteousness lol!

personally, given the recent spate of deaths on London’s road, this is ill thought out, in bad taste, and essentially, not very funny.

surprised Boardman put his name to it to be honest.

what do people expect, every other “Ad” they done in the past, they taken the piss and come up with stupid ideas etc.

Why would any one think it be any different?

I do think is has been some real funny moments,
Armstrong poster and I real think the RED and Green one was very good and I think they should air it!

warton – Member
personally, given the recent spate of deaths on London’s road, this is ill thought out, in bad taste, and essentially, not very funny.

surprised Boardman put his name to it to be honest.

This. And then some.

piedi di formaggio – Member
proper lol at the ‘read and green, learn the difference’!

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+1

I was worried it wouldn’t be a pi$$ take.

As warton says. Even my Mrs thinks its in bad taste.

I really enjoyed it, it was funny, I laughed a lot, and it all led up beautifully to a serious point being made about how to treat cyclists.

.that wasn’t made?

EDIT: Just saying that it would have had a lot of the viewers on board, and it’s a shame that an opportunity missed really.

I ride in London every day of the working week. I found it funny. People really need to take Topgear for what it is – light entertainment with a lot of pisstaking and some bits about cars.

It was never going to be serious and I really don’t understand why people are getting their knickers tied up in knots about it

MTB Rob – Member
what do people expect

I expected hoped they might have taken the opportunity to talk to the x million car drivers (some of whom are doubtless cyclists too) that watch it and help things along a little. Not too much to ask?

It could probably have been done with a little wit but we’re ultimately talking about dead people here – sons, daughters, dads, mates – we’re not pissing about.

Bloke riding by in flames made me laugh.

I think JC stopped liked driving in his 30’s. I was a big fan of his column in the early 90’s.

If I ever meet him I will slap him like a village idiot.

I love cars. I also want my son to cycle, drive and ride motorbikes but I truly think he and the two others are self-serving pricks.

It was really funny the whole show is pisstaking and light hearted entertainment

proper lol at the ‘read and green, learn the difference’!

again LOL.

well filmed as per usual,funny,and well edited,and at leat it got cycling onto mainstream tv that will be shown round the world

I struggled to find it funny, I wonder how many of the drivers that comprimise my safety each week will feel their attitudes vindicated?

Too many cycist deaths for this to be funny IMO – no shame for me in not “having a prespective” if that’s what it gets called.

Maybe there were two versions of the show aired and I got the one that wasn’t amusing.

I like miss argyll socks

Nice. Shame the cycling bit was such a mess.

So by the same logic, they should never do anything funny about cars, ‘cos people are killed in those way too often as well?

It’s just supposed to be a bit of fun

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In what way was it fun?

So by the same logic, they should never do anything funny about cars, ‘cos people are killed in those way too often as well?

showing a squashed bike, in the gutter, to get a cheap laugh in a feature about cycling in london is hardly funny.

Burma special looks good to me!

Also liked the red / green and thought their final ‘serious’ bike film was a reasonable one – and Boardman et al must have known what was coming their way.

Want that Porsche and that Mclaren

Before this gets WAY out of control (and I’ve witnessed a very good friend go over the bonnet of a ford sierra many years ago) – it was funny, right up until the point they missed making any serious point.

It strikes me more than anything, than a great, humorous build up to make a great point, wasn’t made, and therefore a bit of shitty piece of VT and a massively wasted opportunity.

Which points in the last film did you consider reasonable Markie?

To me Clarkson is the driver vs. cyclist version of “now I’m not racist but…”

That’s why it wasnt funny.

The Porsche film is what Top Gear does best. The whole Last Of The Summer Wine routine is getting a bit tired.

That lots of people cycle, that this means there aren’t those same lots of people in cars, that this reduces congestion, that cyclist need space.