IN the past, Jeremy Clarkson has had some fairly damning things to say about motorcyclists.
So the Top Gear host’s neighbours in the Cotswolds were surprised to see him whizzing round their village on a shiny new motorscooter.
For his trip to the pub on the retrostyled dark blue Vespa GTV, Clarkson, 48, chose to wear an open-faced helmet, tinted skiing goggles and bright red gloves.
For a man usually found behind the wheel of a Ferrari, it seemed an odd choice.
Clarkson once caused outrage by suggesting in his newspaper column that the number of motorcyclists should be cut by stretching cheesewire across the road.
He added: ‘Some parents say drugs are the biggest threat to youngsters. I disagree. Every weekend, everyone under 25 takes crack, smack and E and very few are harmed. Bikes are far more dangerous.’
Yeah, Clarkson hates bikers:To quote Clarkson - “If they crash into my car they crumple and I go home and have supper”.
“I reckon there are two types of biker; those who like bikes and those who like being a biker - they stand around in pubs drinking orange juice, and all the girls are slightly fat. You go to these biker pubs and they’re there, hanging around, and they just don’t look very interesting. And the men outnumber the women massively…I can’t think of anything I hate more than that nonsense”.
“I don’t like bikes because I really, really like my kidneys and I don’t want someone else to have them”.
At least if he hates bikers it is spread around very thinly, there are many of us. If lots of bikers hate him it could all get a bit concentrated and he might implode:w00t:
I have a lot of time for Clarkson because he did excellent programmes about the St Nazaire Raid as well as Brunel, also he does make me laugh. Don’t like his politics or most of his opinions though, or the excessively “blokey” direction Top Gear has taken of late.
