Another Clarkson Gem!!

[Akula]

http://www.topgear.com/content/features/stories/2005/10/stories/6/1.html

Like him or loathe him, he is bl**dy funny!!

Personaly i think hes great.

[Jelster]

At this point, I'm sure, some of you will be accusing me of hypocrisy

I think so, says the man who thought it was wonderful that you could hear the new DB9 up to 2 miles away. Personally, I think the guys a righteous self opinionated :toss:

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[fizzwheel]

I think he's funny, he's also opinionated and not afraid to speak his mind and thats exactly what makes him stand out in this age of political correctness and the increasingly nannying state that we live in. I dont care if he doesnt like bikes or bikers I'll still read what he writes and watch his programmes on the TV.

I thought this bit in that article was p*ss funny

"apart from a brief break at lunchtime when they all go to the pub for some bitter lemon and exaggeration"

:lol:

[Viney]

Im with Fizz...

And so another love him hate him thread trolls on :D

[Anonymous]

You can still wear your leather romper suit. You can still accelerate from 60 to 150 in minus 1.3 seconds. You can still crash and die so that someone in need of a spleen may live. But you absolutely do not need to deafen everyone in the process.

Hes got a point though. Where i live i can constantly here bikes going around the ring road which is located 1.5 miles from my house. You can here them come off the a64 duel carriageway on to the a1237 singleway, then accellerate and brake hard as they approach and dispose of each roundabout located on the a1237.

Whilst i love the sound of bikes... it must be really annoying for soneone living on the a1237 if all they get each relatively sunny day is

"ZZZZRRRROOOOOMMMMMmmmmmmmmm"

Its been said in bike magazines for years... "if yours in the 100th loud exhaust they've heard that day, chances are they wont be thankful for it".

We can still ride fast, and get our knee down, and lock the back up in to bends, or race our mates, or what ever we love doing on the country road... but do we really need an exhaust which makes 110Db?

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[Demonz]

what a great read - he does take the p*ss well

[Jelster]

I live about 100 metres from a major bypass and I hear more cars with dustbin sized exhausts than bikes. Plus a bike is gone in a few seconds, where as the Chav in his Nova takes ages to go by....

Clarkson, as usual, is writing it because he knows it will get a reaction. I also think that he gets pi$$ed of with bikes because a £6k GSXR makes his £60k car look slow, and it's that which really irritates him.

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[thor]

Mine's more of a safety feature...

I think it's a cultural thing. Everyone thinks bikers are evil anyway, so why not be noisy too?

I still think Clarkeson is funny though. You don't have to agree with someone to respect them.

[Sudoxe]

but do we really need an exhaust which makes 110Db?

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Yes. Ever ridden in London? We need all the help we can get thankyou!

Dan

[Flamin_Squirrel]

I can't imagine his GT40 is the quietest thing on the road :lol:

[thor]

I love the way that he said that few people have heard a ferrari or DB9 at full chat. Could it be because:

You need a very long straight?
The cars are very rare because they're so expensive?


Sorry, but that's 2-0 to bikes IMHO. :lol:

[Jase22]

Quite a comical article, but if any law along the lines to lower the noise to that level passes, it will be a travesty.

Bikes are meant to be loud, end of story. I'll be keeping my ART can thanks.

[Jelster]

I can't imagine his GT40 is the quietest thing on the road :lol:

But it's all "tyre noise" :roll:

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[Daimo]

God there are some boring farts on here :lol:

Engines sound nice, you should exploit that. Be it in a car, a bike, a boat, hell even a jetski...

And whats wrong with being someone who is opinionated?????? Doesn't make him a :toss: That makes him an individual prepared to speak his mind. Who's worried what anyone else thinks...

[Mogs]

I can't stand the man but he does have a point, I just wish that he would consider all noisy vehicles the same.

I live on a main road about two hundred yards from a bike dealers, every saturday morning you get some twit blasting away from the shop in 1st, popping wheelies etc.

This is equally balanced out by the chav's zooming off slowly from the car tyre and exhaust place next door to the bike dealers with their sound system thumping, huge exhaust and lit up like a ridicluous blue Christmas tree.

[Halonic]

I think I am in the catagory of....

couldnt care less. clarkson is mildly irritating and entertaining in equal measure, but he's various rants are nothing more then fluff and easily dismissed/giggled at/used to cover my floor when I'm polishing my boots.

So untill his views are taken seriously by someone with actual power and political weight, that it may affect my world, I'll happily ignore him.

[tricky]

Unless he bought his house before motorcycles where invented, I've got no sympathy for him.

I'm sure its just 90% wind and **** anyway for the sake of an article, doesn't his wife have a bike ?

[rob13]

Love him....

Great piece despite being very anti bike! He does it with tongue in cheek rather than genuinely looking for a governmental response. He's in the entertainment business after all.

[Skip]

Doesnt he have a house on the Isle of Man anyway?! You would have to be a fruit cake to buy one there and not enjoy motorcycling in some way or another! It would be like our own Peter Henry saying how much he hates a warm climate after moving to Spain! :roll: :lol:

[Peter Henry]

I think JC is a master of the tongue in cheek humour myself. Anyone who actually thinks that he strongly believes in many of the points he makes,are frankly missing the point. His job is to provoke reaction for heavens sake! :wink:

[Jelster]

Engines sound nice, you should exploit that. Be it in a car, a bike, a boat, hell even a jetski...

And whats wrong with being someone who is opinionated?????? Doesn't make him a :toss: That makes him an individual prepared to speak his mind. Who's worried what anyone else thinks...

Everybody is welcome to an opinion, but he rams it down other peoples throats because he has access to the media. Sometimes he makes me laugh too, but he has biggoted ideas against motorcyclists. If he said stuff as strong as that about an Ethnic group he'd be up in front of the beak....

If he's going to complain about "noise", it should be about just that, any noise, not just the noises he doesn't like. The guy is full of his own ego and needs a dose of reality.

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[Ceri JC]

I live about 100 metres from a major bypass and I hear more cars with dustbin sized exhausts than bikes. Plus a bike is gone in a few seconds, where as the Chav in his Nova takes ages to go by....

Clarkson, as usual, is writing it because he knows it will get a reaction. I also think that he gets pi$$ed of with bikes because a £6k GSXR makes his £60k car look slow, and it's that which really irritates him.

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Yep. More a higher percentage of bikes compared to cars have loud cans than cars. However, the fact that there are a lot more cars on the road, mean you need far fewer percentage of cars to have loud exhausts and still be a bigger problem than bikes (which they are).

My office is right next to a roundabout and out of the vehicles with exhausts loud enough to make me look up, at least 2/3rds are cars, rather than bikes.

Also, chavs in novas tend to drive up and down the same road repeatedly, which is a lot more annoying whereas bikes are sort of half a seconds, "vroom" and they're gone.

[Daimo]

Engines sound nice, you should exploit that. Be it in a car, a bike, a boat, hell even a jetski...

And whats wrong with being someone who is opinionated?????? Doesn't make him a :toss: That makes him an individual prepared to speak his mind. Who's worried what anyone else thinks...

Everybody is welcome to an opinion, but he rams it down other peoples throats because he has access to the media. Sometimes he makes me laugh too, but he has biggoted ideas against motorcyclists. If he said stuff as strong as that about an Ethnic group he'd be up in front of the beak....

If he's going to complain about "noise", it should be about just that, any noise, not just the noises he doesn't like. The guy is full of his own ego and needs a dose of reality.

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Thats fair enough fella, but if you don't want to see his opinions, why not just change the channel/skip the page in the paper?

Nothing gets rammed, its choice if you wish to watch the program.

I like cars and bikes, he likes carrs and isn't keen on bikes, but just because his opinion isn't the same as mine it doesn't make him a "self pleaser" :lol:

He's done bloody wello for himself, been watching Clarkson videos since the early 90's!

[Grinch]

I think you'll find the problem is that he's talking mainly about IL4's. Now if he heard a few SV's, maybe a Monster or 2 then he may change his mind. :D
I hear bikes all the time where we are, I likes the sound. But then I'm a biker.

[Jelster]

I think you'll find the problem is that he's talking mainly about IL4's. Now if he heard a few SV's, maybe a Monster or 2 then he may change his mind. :D
I hear bikes all the time where we are, I likes the sound. But then I'm a biker.

Bloody Vee twins make as much noise, they're even louder at tick over.... It's just that there are more IL4's about, so you hear them more often...

My Falco was probably one of the loudest bikes I've ever heard. Sounded god though...

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[wheelnut]

I think JC is a master of the tongue in cheek humour myself. Anyone who actually thinks that he strongly believes in many of the points he makes,are frankly missing the point. His job is to provoke reaction for heavens sake! :wink:

I think PH has got it spot on.

I too think that Jezza has a brilliant sense of humour and that he enjoys winding people up :P

Some of the snippets hidden in his newspaper column are little gems too

[Kate]

I find Clarkson funny so I read and watch his stuff. If you don't like his stuff then why go out of your way to read it and then complain? Its not like its in your face or anything.

Loud bikes, lol. My SV was pretty damn loud and Joe's TL is rather loud with yoshi's on there :lol:

I appear to live on a main route for bikers, on a good day (if I'm not out on my bike that is) I can hear many many bikes flying past and of course the chav's in there nasty little cars with hideously loud exhausts. It doesn't bother me and I don't see the problem. If it did, then I would move, simple.

[Lou M]

I don't live that far from him - I reckon about 20 miles.

Anyone for a meet up on Sunday, about 4am, followed by some lovely routes round the Cotswolds? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Nutty x

[Spiderman]

Loud cans save lives IMO.

Simple.

The fact that i love the sound of bikes in general anyway is niether here or there

[cuffy]

I don't live that far from him - I reckon about 20 miles.

Anyone for a meet up on Sunday, about 4am, followed by some lovely routes round the Cotswolds? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Nutty xI'm not all that far from him either...reckon it could be a giggle to get a load of peeps to buzz past his place a few times :D

As for the man himself...i think he's fooking quality...great sense of humour. 8)

[Warthog]

I agree with the IL4 point someone made here. Screaming IL4s can be a bit annoying if 100 go past, but throbbing powerful twins are never annoying, they even make my heart thump when I hear one go by! I think JC is really funny, and watch Top Gear a lot, but he is still just WRONG about bikes hahaha.

[Beenz]

I love his writing, It will make me laugh even if I don't agree with the view.

Round here you can hear a Chavs' Nova exhaust only..... between 'tracks' of the riddum sounds from the in car music ferry :shock: being driven at four miles an hour with the windows down. At least a bike, even a loud one is passed in a second or two.

Sway life iz innit spose doh. :D

Thinking of my next zorst after first service on Wednesday. Thinking silly :)

[Quiff Wichard]

I live about 100 metres from a major bypass and I hear more cars with dustbin sized exhausts than bikes. Plus a bike is gone in a few seconds, where as the Chav in his Nova takes ages to go by....

Clarkson, as usual, is writing it because he knows it will get a reaction. I also think that he gets pi$$ed of with bikes because a £6k GSXR makes his £60k car look slow, and it's that which really irritates him.

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Steve u need to move outta that tent and get a house !!

I love Clarkson purely for- and indicated by this thread- the responses he gets.!!...his column in the paper on a saturday is ace !!... soo soo funny and he says what we all think!.
and when he got egged or custard pied the other month- he took it so so well- what a sport..!...

but yea- he is like marmite !

oh and his book is ace!!--- a great read...

he does the bike knocking 'cos Richard white teeth and the open helmet lover guy who are on top gear are both bikers too !!( oo i only just read the link!)

and-- AND-- isnt he the one ruining the countryside with a bloody jet fighter aeroplane thing parked in his drive!!

[Jelster]

Please don't tel me "not to read his stuff" when somebody on this forum actually posts something up about it... I wouldn't normally read it, but as something is posted on a bike forum, and knowing that he's got a problem with bikes, it makes sense for me to read it... Doesn't it ????

I like watching Top Gear as I'm a bit of a petrol head myself. I find Hamster and and the "old boy" amusing; I find JC irritating.

I'd also like to know what time he could put in round the circuit in that crap car too....

As has been said, everybody's welcome to opinions, mine is "Clarksons an ****".

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[Quiff Wichard]

good retort....


me clapping..


=D> <<<<<<<<<<<< me clapping

[carelesschucca]

He's got everything he wanted out of that article, an argument, look at you all, taking the bait, once again Clarkson wins...

Take him ith a pinch of salt... He makes me laugh!!!

[Jp]

A funny read, im another one who likes a someone who expresses themselves publicly, just look how much its riled us forum members up to have a pretty good discussion, we wouldnt have done the same thing if tony has come out in a conference and said

"i, i, ....i think that the current regulations on bike noise are wrong and they should be changed, altho they they do sound very lovely...."

Even if the leg came in, id still have my race can on, as im sure many forum members would, arsed?

[fizzwheel]

I'd also like to know what time he could put in round the circuit in that crap car too....

I think he did the first ever lap. 1m 50 seconds according to the Top Gear Website

[PsychoCannon]

Whilst I don't agree with him and yes he's being a hypocrite...he's still f****g funny and he knows he's being both at the same time :D

Personally I advocate loud bikes not just because of the satisfaction but because of all the tits out there that don't look where they are bloody going, at least when they hear you coming they "Usually" look...doesn't mean to say they won't still pull out on you but hey.

[Alpinestarhero]

Well im still bitter that he was given a degree in engineering when he dosnt know anything about engineering! Well, not enough to warrent a degree im sure!

Why cant i get a degree in chem that easuily?!

Matt