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  • Started 12 years ago by Chimpofdoom
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  1. Chimpofdoom
    Member

    Jezza buys a bike!

    http://www.bikebiz.com/news/read/jeremy-clarkson-buys-bike-urges-normal-people-to-follow-his-example/014871

    Wonder if it'll appear on topgear ;-)

    Posted 12 years ago #
  2. Min
    Member

    That is just weird but I suppose he will write anything if you pay him enough.

    Posted 12 years ago #
  3. SRD
    Moderator

    Anyone else think he sounds just like Mikael from copenhagenize now?

    Posted 12 years ago #
  4. Baldcyclist
    Member

    I like Clarkson, I think he can be quite funny sometimes, and that most of what he says can be taken with a pinch of salt. But then, I do like c*rs.

    Posted 12 years ago #
  5. crowriver
    Member

    Anyone else think he sounds just like Mikael from copenhagenize now?

    Funny that (peculiar rather than ha-ha).

    Perhaps it's the distance both he and Colville-Andersen put between themselves and what we might loosely term "cycling enthusiasts", ie. the "lycra-clad gentlemen" so frequently disparaged by "normal" people.

    In their own different ways, I puth this down to a fear of looking "uncool". Clarkson thought he needed a car (peferably a powerful, fast one) to avoid that, but now he sees that normal/cool people cycle on the continent, he comes around to the CycleChic point of view...

    Posted 12 years ago #
  6. crowriver
    Member

    Hilarious review of CycleChic: The Book*. Now I see how Clarkson et al fit into the picture...

    "A book of photographs of mostly smartly dressed college-age women in Europe looking good riding bicycles in European cities. There are only a a few pages of text. None are studio portraits. Out of 77 riders depicted in the first chapter only 11 are male and 3 have gray hair. Only 2 older women appear in the first chapter; one in the background and the other covering her face with a hat & sunglasses. The rest are good-looking well-dressed college-age women. Everyone is bicycle riding in urban settings. No rural scenes appear. Foliage or plants only appear in 30 out of 72 photographs in the first chapter. The majority are white people. Of the 77 people depicted in the first chapter 2 are black, 2 are Arabic and 4 are Asian. The bicycles are all upright bikes with a few adult tricycles. No recumbents or bicycle races appear. This is a book about commuting.

    It used to be that the only people who rode bicycles were people who could not afford cars. With the recent collapse of the World economy cycling is more of a necessity all over the World. In trying to deal with their new-found poverty the World might look to see how Europe is dealing with it. As expensive as it is to travel to Europe this is a handbook that saves you the fare. While poverty drives the World to ride bicycles, this book documents the European twist on how they do it."

    * - I shan't be rushing out to purchase a copy...

    Posted 12 years ago #
  7. crowriver
    Member

    London got its answer to CycleChic in early it seems: Cycle Style. Note the cover features a young man with a drop handlebar fixie (no rear brake). Lots of tweed plus fours, vintage bikes, Audrey Hepburn homages, etc. inside...

    London Hipsters vs. Copenhagen Dames. Let battle commence!

    Posted 12 years ago #
  8. EddieD
    Member

    He's had bikes for years - it crops up on cycle forums every few years or so.

    As Baldcyclist says, much of what Clarkson says can be taken with a pinch of salt, he plays to a character. I don't think that makes him any less of a vainglorious tool though, a lot of folk take his newspaper columns - where he's infinitely more vainglorious than Top Gear - seriously.

    Posted 12 years ago #
  9. chdot
    Admin

    "

    Posted by Carlton Reid (carlton@bikebiz.co.uk) on Wednesday 2 Aug 2006

    Jeremy Clarkson and his missus have Raleigh Pioneer hybrids. He rides his to keep trim. Clearly, he doesn't ride enough. The fact that Mr Motor rode a bike was actualy a big, full page expose in The Sun about 4-5 years ago.

    "

    http://www.velovision.com/showStory.php?storynum=370

    Posted 12 years ago #

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