Another Clarkson Gem!!

Originally Posted by 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 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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Originally Posted by 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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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.

Originally Posted by Jelster

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"

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

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.
I hear bikes all the time where we are, I likes the sound. But then I'm a biker.

Originally Posted by 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.
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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Originally Posted by 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!

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

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

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.

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?

Nutty x

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Loud cans save lives IMO.

Simple.

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

Originally Posted by NuttyT@rt

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?

Nutty x

I'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

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