It seems that 'celebrity' bike-hater James Martin will be opening the new Eat Central food court at the Merry Hill shopping centre near where I live in the Midlands. I thought it might be amusing in a childish way to go down there and yell "cock!" and other obscenities at him. Then go (back) to the pub. It's on October 22nd by the way.

yeah go on, do it- i'll watch

U-lock and old bike on his shiny alloy wheels?

damn. I'm out of the country then otherwise that sort of silliness sounds right up my street.

is there a lot of evidence of his bike hating? knew of his car loving but not that he was a bike hater?

he's not worth it however wrong he may be.

as Arnie said, "relax, you'll live longer".

Yeah and then he'll feel justified that all cyclists are idiots! 🙄

Christ, t'was only a bit of fun.

Lighten up, folks.

i was listening to him on the chris evans radio show the other night.
comes over as a ok type of bloke…..
and lets be honest, he is only a cook.
makes me laugh when they go on about these great chefs and how fod should be cooked.
was watching a prog the other night, a bloke cooked some lamb, it looked lush…..some critic tasted it and said it was way over done….
who say's lamb should be cooked pink or pasta el dente…
do you think the 1st people whi invented fire and cooked their 1st meat thought, oh dear you have coked it too much………

just a thought on chefs……… 😉

is there a lot of evidence of his bike hating? knew of his car loving but not that he was a bike hater?

Have you been in a cave?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1211917/JAMES-MARTIN-The-Tesla-Roadster-electric-supercar-thats-fast-Ferrari.html

And I quote…. God, I hate those cyclists. and he goes on to suggest cyclists are doing it deliberately to annoy him. That article no longer contains his boasts about running a group of cyclists off the road as he had to retract it when it turned out it's against the law.

We have stopped watching his TV show and I have written to the BBC.

Probably token gestures but a gesture non the less.

We have stopped watching his TV show and I have written to the BBC.

Did you start the letter "Why oh why"?

Have you been in a cave?

🙁 i only came back to the UK 5 or 6 weeks ago

No, I started by asking why they employed someone who boasted about their criminal activities.

Fair enough then. It went fairly mainstream in the national press about his attitude towards cyclists, everyone got ever so upset.