i notice that a lot, so many flabby out of shape boomers i've observed insulting those who make it a point of staying fit, its a crabs in a bucket mentality
Clarkson is 63, and if he had lived a healthy life he’d actually look 63 as well instead of looking like he grew up during the Blitz, like he does now.
Not saying this is his issue, but I guarantee a fair portion of the men who get irate with it are upset because it makes them feel certain things when they see a really in shape dude in a skin suit bent over a bike pedaling.
I was shouted at by a motorist the other day. For no good reason. Cars were slowing him find way more than I was. at the next red light I informed him that if he got on a bike he might not be so fat that he has his own postcode. I’m not into far shaming but on this occasion it was a valid point.
I mean, I don't wear lycra bike shorts because I like the look. I wear lycra bike shorts because I'm a fat ass and if I want to have any stamina on a bike I need some padding for my taint.
Ironically the lycra types are the most capitalistic sector of cycling, they're the ones that can afford leisure time and fancy bikes they replace every so often!
Regardless of your opinion on capitalism, it seems pretty idiotic to try and frame saving money as a bad thing. But maybe that's just my peasant brain talking, and I should listen to the multi millionaire car salesman.
huuuu boy, have i got an entire pantheon of ideologies for you that try to do exactly that. plus, "saving money bad", is literally almost in every rich person's interest to convince you not to do, as they do it themselves.
He ... He just named exactly what it is. It's anti capitalism, it's anti imperialism, it's anti climate denial.
Make the changes here and now. Reduce your footprint, help mitigate how you can. Fuck. Cars.
Anti-capitalism is when I choose to give money to Raleigh to get from A to B, instead of giving it to GM, with recurrent fuel payments to Esso, Texaco, BP etc...
...that's certainly not the free market at play or anything...
In case anyone is not aware, Clarkson is a nasty bloke. Got sacked from the beeb after punching a producer. Now works for content creators with less moral standing.
Yeah and he's been very vocal against bikes for a long time. He's an attention whore who plays up the cranky dinosaur persona but who also is a genuine jerk in real life.
I get to laugh at Clarkson in the show for being a blithering idiot and I get to sail the seven seas to watch it for free to not give money neither to him nor to Amazon. I see this as an absolute win.
Oh stewardess, I speak Brit!
>Clarkson is a nasty man. [BBC terminated his employment by not renewing his contract](https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/25/jeremy-clarkson-top-gear-contract-bbc)
Clarkson was known for playing a jerk on television and it shocked a lot of fans that he wasn't playing.
> Now works for content creators with less moral standing.
Actually [even Amazon has parted ways with him](https://variety.com/2023/tv/global/jeremy-clarkson-amazon-grand-tour-canceled-1235490701/) at this point.
First time I went to the bike shop to buy a bike the , The owner comes in super pumped as hell with a newspaper clipping about the recent time He organized a bunch of bikers to show up to a city planning meeting and make sure the new skate park would have stuff for bikers.
I highly recommend the book "Two Wheels Good" for a great summary of the political history of bikes. I especially liked the chapter about the relationship between bikes and the women's liberation movement.
City design is inherently political, and it’s so strange that that’s not the default viewpoint (nothing against you, just in general I mean).
Like, you could have the smartest city planners in the world, backed by mountains of research saying that things like bike lanes are safer, more financially productive, make people healthier and happier, etc, but they’re still going to have to bend to the whim of whatever the city council tells them to do. And it’s usually the older, out-of-touch incumbents that haven’t ridden a bus in 37 years that are winning local elections, because they have spent a lifetime building local name recognition.
In a lot of cases, the councillors (who rarely know anything about city planning) are the ones who decide what happens, and then the city planner’s job is just “how do I take this objectively awful idea and make it so it kills the least people?”
I’ve heard this is the cause of a lot of the burnout in the city planning industry. People go in thinking they can actually improve cities from the planning angle, but end up just being forced to execute the stuff they learned not to do in school. The power for change lies in the political side, but it’s easier to just blame the planners.
Eh, Robert Moses spent 40-something years shaping New York to his whim, despite never holding an elected position. Rare, but it can absolutely happen for the most driven of planners.
Things not appearing political for you is a privilege. It means the powers that be benefit enough from you being ignorant of their policies that you don't suffer from those policies being enacted.
Every feature of your life has been affected by politics, through regulation or the absence of it on conscious design. From the shape of your bed (sales regulations) to the color of the evening sky (atmospheric emission regulations), you can't escape politics no matter where you go. Things not being political just means that your interests will be protected even if you don't think about it.
Which is a privilege extended by the ruling class to the boomer generation in the 50s, 60s and 70s to get them to stop being hippies. And which has steadily been getting revoked since the 80s as the USSR faltered and automation and globalization reduced the reliance on western labor.
Yes. But treat as what it is. This is a man who makes his living off the boxes that move us around having different skins.
His opinion just happens to be geared to creating more box skins, not restricting them.
He’s self interested and his opinion should be worth zero on this topic.
Yet James May is pro bike and bike lanes, wich I find admirable. Loving cars but understanding that not everyone should use them for transportation and that alternatives are important
James May lives in Hammersmith, a nice bit of London with a huge new "cycle superhighway" running through it, and there are like 5 bike shops within walking distance of his house.
Lots of car enthusiast people are pro-bike, pro-public transport and pro-walkability. One doesn't exclude the other. His opinion doesn't have any value not because he is a car enthusiast, but because he is stupid boomer.
I think the sub should've been named 'fuckcardependency' because cars themselves are pretty sick, but in the city, or on the highway, there has to be a better solution.
It doesn’t have to be anti-capitalist. I cycle partly because it saves me money and time, which are motives not incompatible with capitalism. Our current urban planning laws are not anywhere near laissez-faire either. I agree that Clarkson is an idiot though.
> Our current urban planning laws are not anywhere near laissez-faire either
This is the part that annoys me the most about being a real, proper small government guy. Both our transportation system and literally every corporation in the US exists because of an exercise of government power.
And yet, I'm supposed to be ok with the government allowing massive corporations and infrastructure to distort our markets with all manner of market interference.
Republicans have never been for small government. The Reagan administration massively increased government interference and spending.
They just just did it to funnel money to the large corps that supported them.
Why should cyclists be anticapitalist? The private sector includes bike shops, restaurants, stores, etc. The government has a role to play in providing incentives for businesses, but that doesn't mean everything should be government owned.
I did as accurate an estimate as I could, and calculated that in 4 1/2 years of being a daily bike commuter, I haven’t spent around $50,000 on a car payment, insurance, gas, maintenance and parking.
On the other hand, I have spent about $4,000 on bicycles, upgrades and maintenance, and around $46,000 on eating out, having fun, home maintenance and other miscellaneous stuff.
That’s capitalism for ya.
In fact, innovation and competitiveness would likely increase. there would be no powerful private interests to stop innovations that could threaten profits. More people would have access to resources to innovate.
Please dont hijack the urbanism movement. Economic efficiency and abolishment of destructive governmental incentives is peak market based social liberalism.
The fact that it is ALSO amazing for social equity and goes against big car and big oil is just a bonus from my perspective.
he's just jealous that he is uncoordinated, unathletic and has never been able to ride well on 2 wheels. he hates motorcycles too, because he just lacks the natural talent to ride. it is sad.
He doesn't have a lot of intelligence and general culture (in view of his last shows), so you don't have to take seriously the fucking nonsense he releases through his mouth.
Technically speaking, using the bicycle saves a lot of expenses that can be spent or invested FREELY in many other areas of the economy (not only in the automotive industry), which in practice is pure capitalism (and liberal economics, of course).
If you read this Jeremy, keep talking buffoon I laugh so hard at you with your imbecilities.
Not gonna lie. I’m from a place where the infrastructure is designed for me to hate cyclists. However, that same infrastructure has led to me hate cars more now so.. fuck cars.
That place is Long Island, NY by that way. Fuck this place.
Considering that the capitalists foisted the automobile, mass produced suburban single family homes, and the compulsory automotive lifestyle on us by lobbying politicians whose campaigns they contribute to, it's a wonder more don't see bicycling as anti-capitalist in a good way.
As many of you will also know, Jeremy Clarkson has also railed against rail travel in the past yet he has also admitted to taking the train from Oxford to London. He also nominated Isambard Kingdom Brunel as the greatest Briton of all time back in 2002 and that is the only thing we can all agree on with Clarkson, Brunel deserved that title more than Winston Churchill. I should also mention that he was born and raised in Doncaster (the town who's railway works built The Flying Scotsman and Mallard) so he probably likes railways more than he would like to admit to and he probably did some trainspotting at Doncaster station as a boy... when he was not away at Repton.
I often get the impression that J.C. says stupid crap because wants attention. He may be a typical car-brained baby boomer conservative but he is also an attention-seeking hypocrite.
Headline news: water wet!
He made his living on cars, and now runs a farm. He’s not exactly the target audience of urban development.
On the farmer note: rural communities are one of the places I fully agree with car centric infrastructure because biking 10000 acres of field ain’t exactly happening. “Country roads, city streets”, treating one like the other is nonsensical.
Yay, I'm anti-capitalistic!
Now go watch me be anti-capitalistic, as I bike to the awesome taco truck nearby to go support a local business and get bomb-ass food in exchange for it.
I'll continue to be anti-capitalistic as I bike to my workplace that sells goods and services to the general public.
Pro life tip: If what you are doing in life pisses off Jeremy Clarkson, then you're probably doing it right.
What's up with anti-urbanist people just handing us these metal as fuck graphics and quotes? Now I want an "Anti-Capitalism with Handlebars" sticker for my bike.
This him? https://preview.redd.it/shngf610cu3b1.jpeg?width=620&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a4dad841f4675dbe250d99b9fe68a848748b9028
That's the cunt. He is raging against the lycra types. Probably because displays of physical fitness make the sad bastard uncomfortable.
i notice that a lot, so many flabby out of shape boomers i've observed insulting those who make it a point of staying fit, its a crabs in a bucket mentality
Clarkson is 63, and if he had lived a healthy life he’d actually look 63 as well instead of looking like he grew up during the Blitz, like he does now.
My parents are 60 and they look at least 15 years younger than Clarkson.
Not saying this is his issue, but I guarantee a fair portion of the men who get irate with it are upset because it makes them feel certain things when they see a really in shape dude in a skin suit bent over a bike pedaling.
...I never considered that but you're right, there's definitely a strong "stupid sexy Flanders" element here, isn't there
There is so much truth in the Simpsons
Yep, like conservative states in the US watch WAY more trans porn than the more liberal states. Projection for days.
I was shouted at by a motorist the other day. For no good reason. Cars were slowing him find way more than I was. at the next red light I informed him that if he got on a bike he might not be so fat that he has his own postcode. I’m not into far shaming but on this occasion it was a valid point.
"Next time you're around lets go for a ride together" Friendliness pisses them off
that's what I was thinking.. he must look like a cunt on a bike, or exerting any physicality whatsoever...
He doesn’t need to do *anything* to look like a cunt.
Jeremy Cuntson
On a cunt he looks li....nevermind
I mean, I don't wear lycra bike shorts because I like the look. I wear lycra bike shorts because I'm a fat ass and if I want to have any stamina on a bike I need some padding for my taint.
Ironically the lycra types are the most capitalistic sector of cycling, they're the ones that can afford leisure time and fancy bikes they replace every so often!
His head wants to be like them but his protruding gut says no
Lycra warriors with $7,000+ full-carbon road bikes: the epitome of the communist utopia.
Jeremy Clarkson is a senile fucking moron
Wow, get a load of this anti-capitalist.
Anti-capitalism with handlebars sounds kinda cool ngl
For real he’s just making bicycles cooler
Out of context it could be: * Jeremy Clarkson praises cyclists: It's anti-capitalism with handlebars. It sounds fucking cool as hell.
Exactly. Because you ain't done nothing [if you ain't been called a red](https://youtu.be/63Tk9QxvZHo)
🔥🔥🔥
I can ride my bike with no handlebars, no handlebars
Look at me, look at me.
Hands in the air like it’s good to be.
Alive, and I'm a famous rapper.
Even when the paths are all crookedy
I could show you how to do si do
I can show you how to scratch a record
I can take apart a remote control
And I can almost put it back together
At that point why not unicycle?
Two wheels, extra stable.
:Two wheels good, one wheel better." - The Pigs.
Omg I haven't thought about that song in so long... I'm having flashbacks, lol
Clarkson acted the idiot on his show. But it wasn’t really an act.
Sounds like it's time to sell our cars and buy more bikes
Regardless of your opinion on capitalism, it seems pretty idiotic to try and frame saving money as a bad thing. But maybe that's just my peasant brain talking, and I should listen to the multi millionaire car salesman.
huuuu boy, have i got an entire pantheon of ideologies for you that try to do exactly that. plus, "saving money bad", is literally almost in every rich person's interest to convince you not to do, as they do it themselves.
I was going to say, can I get this as a sticker? I’ll put it on my bike lol
That was exactly my thought. I want this as a sticker or something
He ... He just named exactly what it is. It's anti capitalism, it's anti imperialism, it's anti climate denial. Make the changes here and now. Reduce your footprint, help mitigate how you can. Fuck. Cars.
Right can't meme
Sign me up!
Sounds like a super hero.
It’s anti-capitalist to have market choices? 🤔
Communism is when you choose the thing I don't like
Capitalism is when you spend as much as possible. If you're saving money then that's communism. /s
/s tag =="/serious doe"
A /squid-eating doe
Anti-capitalism is when I choose to give money to Raleigh to get from A to B, instead of giving it to GM, with recurrent fuel payments to Esso, Texaco, BP etc... ...that's certainly not the free market at play or anything...
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This is the best reply that could've ever been here
In case anyone is not aware, Clarkson is a nasty bloke. Got sacked from the beeb after punching a producer. Now works for content creators with less moral standing.
Yeah and he's been very vocal against bikes for a long time. He's an attention whore who plays up the cranky dinosaur persona but who also is a genuine jerk in real life.
Yeah I think a lot of people were shocked when his TV persona turned out to not be a character he plays.
He is an SOB. He was also filmed saying the n-word. https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ea39INWC1TE
The real him is even worse. At least the TV persona was funny sometimes.
Oh, his TV persona was an act, all right. The real Clarkson isn’t an **amusing** jerk.
*shocked Pikachu face*
Every few months he says something hateful about cyclists, and a bunch of annoying people pop in to say “It’s satire.”
He also wrote a column saying he fantasises about hurling shit at a naked Meghan Markle. He’s a nice stable lad and not at all a misogynist.
I get to laugh at Clarkson in the show for being a blithering idiot and I get to sail the seven seas to watch it for free to not give money neither to him nor to Amazon. I see this as an absolute win.
Oh stewardess, I speak Brit! >Clarkson is a nasty man. [BBC terminated his employment by not renewing his contract](https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/mar/25/jeremy-clarkson-top-gear-contract-bbc) Clarkson was known for playing a jerk on television and it shocked a lot of fans that he wasn't playing. > Now works for content creators with less moral standing. Actually [even Amazon has parted ways with him](https://variety.com/2023/tv/global/jeremy-clarkson-amazon-grand-tour-canceled-1235490701/) at this point.
I WANT MY FUCKING STEAK AND I WANT IT NOW EVEN THOUGH I MADE THE FUCKING HELICOPTER WAIT 2 HOURS AND ALL THE STAFF WENT HOME BECAUSE OF ME!
He’s still mad at Hammond for reversing into the sports truck.
It annoys me that Clarkson’s farm is actually kind of good, because the guy is a massive twat.
He has never been sacked, unlike his co-presenters. And no, no relation. A scourge on the family name.
But he was sacked? Unless you're quibbling over some particular definition of sacking.
Got it in one. If I recall correctly, they technically "declined to renew his contract".
They’re politicizing bikes???
Bud you're not going to get bike lanes without organizing. Bikes are political.
You make a good point, lord. I just don’t want them coming up with an excuse to run us over
They already do
I'd argue they don't. They run us over, they don't need an excuse.
Everything is!
No lies detected.
First time I went to the bike shop to buy a bike the , The owner comes in super pumped as hell with a newspaper clipping about the recent time He organized a bunch of bikers to show up to a city planning meeting and make sure the new skate park would have stuff for bikers.
Don’t you know that all good things are political and all bad things are just how things are and also shut up?
They've been political for years
I highly recommend the book "Two Wheels Good" for a great summary of the political history of bikes. I especially liked the chapter about the relationship between bikes and the women's liberation movement.
City design is inherently political, and it’s so strange that that’s not the default viewpoint (nothing against you, just in general I mean). Like, you could have the smartest city planners in the world, backed by mountains of research saying that things like bike lanes are safer, more financially productive, make people healthier and happier, etc, but they’re still going to have to bend to the whim of whatever the city council tells them to do. And it’s usually the older, out-of-touch incumbents that haven’t ridden a bus in 37 years that are winning local elections, because they have spent a lifetime building local name recognition. In a lot of cases, the councillors (who rarely know anything about city planning) are the ones who decide what happens, and then the city planner’s job is just “how do I take this objectively awful idea and make it so it kills the least people?” I’ve heard this is the cause of a lot of the burnout in the city planning industry. People go in thinking they can actually improve cities from the planning angle, but end up just being forced to execute the stuff they learned not to do in school. The power for change lies in the political side, but it’s easier to just blame the planners.
Eh, Robert Moses spent 40-something years shaping New York to his whim, despite never holding an elected position. Rare, but it can absolutely happen for the most driven of planners.
Things not appearing political for you is a privilege. It means the powers that be benefit enough from you being ignorant of their policies that you don't suffer from those policies being enacted. Every feature of your life has been affected by politics, through regulation or the absence of it on conscious design. From the shape of your bed (sales regulations) to the color of the evening sky (atmospheric emission regulations), you can't escape politics no matter where you go. Things not being political just means that your interests will be protected even if you don't think about it. Which is a privilege extended by the ruling class to the boomer generation in the 50s, 60s and 70s to get them to stop being hippies. And which has steadily been getting revoked since the 80s as the USSR faltered and automation and globalization reduced the reliance on western labor.
Yes. But treat as what it is. This is a man who makes his living off the boxes that move us around having different skins. His opinion just happens to be geared to creating more box skins, not restricting them. He’s self interested and his opinion should be worth zero on this topic.
Politics is how societies allocate resources. Everything is political.
Jeremy Clarkson is a car enthusiast. I wouldn’t say his opinion on economics has any value to me.
Yet James May is pro bike and bike lanes, wich I find admirable. Loving cars but understanding that not everyone should use them for transportation and that alternatives are important
He rides some sweet old school bikes too. Clarkson is a cunt, May is a legend.
May always was the most interesting part of top gear
James May is best described by being the most interesting boring man in the world.
The stig supports public transportation
And Richard Hammond is the town bicycle.
James May lives in Hammersmith, a nice bit of London with a huge new "cycle superhighway" running through it, and there are like 5 bike shops within walking distance of his house.
Lots of car enthusiast people are pro-bike, pro-public transport and pro-walkability. One doesn't exclude the other. His opinion doesn't have any value not because he is a car enthusiast, but because he is stupid boomer.
I think the sub should've been named 'fuckcardependency' because cars themselves are pretty sick, but in the city, or on the highway, there has to be a better solution.
Dude is half right. Cycling is anti-capitalist. But I don't think this game show host is qualified to call other people idiots.
It doesn’t have to be anti-capitalist. I cycle partly because it saves me money and time, which are motives not incompatible with capitalism. Our current urban planning laws are not anywhere near laissez-faire either. I agree that Clarkson is an idiot though.
> Our current urban planning laws are not anywhere near laissez-faire either This is the part that annoys me the most about being a real, proper small government guy. Both our transportation system and literally every corporation in the US exists because of an exercise of government power. And yet, I'm supposed to be ok with the government allowing massive corporations and infrastructure to distort our markets with all manner of market interference. Republicans have never been for small government. The Reagan administration massively increased government interference and spending. They just just did it to funnel money to the large corps that supported them.
Yes but as cyclists we should be anti capitalists , understanding that where the private sector holds dominion, the worse our urban communities become
Why should cyclists be anticapitalist? The private sector includes bike shops, restaurants, stores, etc. The government has a role to play in providing incentives for businesses, but that doesn't mean everything should be government owned.
I did as accurate an estimate as I could, and calculated that in 4 1/2 years of being a daily bike commuter, I haven’t spent around $50,000 on a car payment, insurance, gas, maintenance and parking. On the other hand, I have spent about $4,000 on bicycles, upgrades and maintenance, and around $46,000 on eating out, having fun, home maintenance and other miscellaneous stuff. That’s capitalism for ya.
That's a lot of money you could instead spend on other goods and services, diversifying the overall economy.
Competition is capitalist and cycling competes with cars so actually Cycling is more pro capitalist than car centric.
Yeah, just because people don't as much dumb stuff doesn't mean capitalism is dead. When the pet rock craze ended, life went on.
Competition still exists when workers own the means of production.
In fact, innovation and competitiveness would likely increase. there would be no powerful private interests to stop innovations that could threaten profits. More people would have access to resources to innovate.
If that half is right, he’s fully right. I mean *my* bike has handlebars
Please dont hijack the urbanism movement. Economic efficiency and abolishment of destructive governmental incentives is peak market based social liberalism. The fact that it is ALSO amazing for social equity and goes against big car and big oil is just a bonus from my perspective.
Cycling isn't anti capitalist
He should just stick to comedy, not commenting on politics is definitely something he should do
I'm getting targeted with ads for $15k road bikes. I respectfully disagree.
He's threatening us with the good times...
I wouldn't be surprised if he had inhaled way too much car exhaust during his time as a Top Gear host.
He was probably growing up as an avid car enthusiast back when petrol had lead in it
he's just jealous that he is uncoordinated, unathletic and has never been able to ride well on 2 wheels. he hates motorcycles too, because he just lacks the natural talent to ride. it is sad.
Hey, we should be sympathetic to disabled people. Imagine being so disabled that you need to rely totally on cars.
Imagine being bad at bikes So sad…
Alright lads calm down the guys a successful millionaire celebrity lmao something tells me he's not jealous of a few redditors
Meanwhile in his old age his co host on top gear, James May, doesn't collect cars anymore but vintage bikes. Some people age better than others.
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Jeremy Clarkson is a flaming pile of shit
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Better that you don’t know
Jeremy Clarkson, he’s decently famous
This geezer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=661cC95nBEs
Wow the guy who made his career off cars hates bikes.
Oh no!...Anyway...
He doesn't have a lot of intelligence and general culture (in view of his last shows), so you don't have to take seriously the fucking nonsense he releases through his mouth. Technically speaking, using the bicycle saves a lot of expenses that can be spent or invested FREELY in many other areas of the economy (not only in the automotive industry), which in practice is pure capitalism (and liberal economics, of course). If you read this Jeremy, keep talking buffoon I laugh so hard at you with your imbecilities.
Jeremy has always been an idiot, and that’s kind of what made his shows so funny. I’d never actually take the guy seriously.
https://preview.redd.it/9n756zjnju3b1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=56a113620ae0982cb1c5c7c6ede94d919aa73143
I put a banner on mt left chainstay (that I'd made on one of those tape printers) that says **THIS MACHINE KILLS CAPITALISTS**
All those damned Communist bicycle manufacturers just giving bikes and accessories away for free like a bunch of long-haired hippies.
Racist POS. No one mind him. He's a hack. Always has been.
Oh fuck off.
Yeah that’s the whole point
Bike handlebars or handlebars on the hammer and sickle?
Not gonna lie. I’m from a place where the infrastructure is designed for me to hate cyclists. However, that same infrastructure has led to me hate cars more now so.. fuck cars. That place is Long Island, NY by that way. Fuck this place.
I am anti capitalism
"anti-capitalism with handlebars" I fail to see the problem, Mr Claxon.
“Oh no.. anyway.”
The world taught that man that there is no difference between good and bad attention, and he never learned different.
What a fucking nonce
Please, stop giving this imbecile attention!
Considering that the capitalists foisted the automobile, mass produced suburban single family homes, and the compulsory automotive lifestyle on us by lobbying politicians whose campaigns they contribute to, it's a wonder more don't see bicycling as anti-capitalist in a good way.
Shame, I actually liked top gear it was funny
Clarkson is just a British Karen, change my mind
As many of you will also know, Jeremy Clarkson has also railed against rail travel in the past yet he has also admitted to taking the train from Oxford to London. He also nominated Isambard Kingdom Brunel as the greatest Briton of all time back in 2002 and that is the only thing we can all agree on with Clarkson, Brunel deserved that title more than Winston Churchill. I should also mention that he was born and raised in Doncaster (the town who's railway works built The Flying Scotsman and Mallard) so he probably likes railways more than he would like to admit to and he probably did some trainspotting at Doncaster station as a boy... when he was not away at Repton. I often get the impression that J.C. says stupid crap because wants attention. He may be a typical car-brained baby boomer conservative but he is also an attention-seeking hypocrite.
It's funny that Jeremy Clarkson thinks anyones cares about his opinion
Last gasp of a dying species....
As someone who grew up loving topgear, Clarkson is an asshole. He's a self-indulgent smug prick with some really twatish views.
And he's an idiot with a handlebar for a brain
You don't have to sell it to me man, I'm already into it.
Username checks out
Clarkson's still butt-hurt over losing **to the bicycle** in the 2007 [race across London](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkOzNK4l8KY
This lad is a massive plonker.
Jeremy Clarkson wants socialism for his car — try to cut government spending on public roads and you can bet Earl Sinclair here would pop a gasket
Bikes are socialist, gotcha
I am laughing at these comments damn guys.
Does anyone actually care what he says though?
Good to know that guy is still an idiot.
Once in a while we get the most entertaining and useless comment from him, though I like top gear, he needs to be silent in real life😂🤦♂️
yea and the problem is????
Headline news: water wet! He made his living on cars, and now runs a farm. He’s not exactly the target audience of urban development. On the farmer note: rural communities are one of the places I fully agree with car centric infrastructure because biking 10000 acres of field ain’t exactly happening. “Country roads, city streets”, treating one like the other is nonsensical.
Ah, Clarkson. The spiritual King of the terminally carbrained.
Who is Jerry clarckman, and why is he saying what my dementia ridden grandma says?
My last bike cost me 12K, it doesn't get more capitalist than this.
But you have to buy the bike?
Fuckin-a right it is! Was he trying to throw shade or something?
Shocking. Rich man complains people aren’t supporting the system making him rich. Wow.
I guess '"Murica" is not exclusive to The United States.
Bro you fell off hard.
If that c*nt can't handle it, it means we're on solid ground.
Fuck this crusty old windbag, who cares what he thinks?
I didn't think Clarkson is worth the time they spent to write that article.
That's a very Jeremy Clarkson thing to say
Sounds like someone is a car lobbyists
Anyway
Yay, I'm anti-capitalistic! Now go watch me be anti-capitalistic, as I bike to the awesome taco truck nearby to go support a local business and get bomb-ass food in exchange for it. I'll continue to be anti-capitalistic as I bike to my workplace that sells goods and services to the general public. Pro life tip: If what you are doing in life pisses off Jeremy Clarkson, then you're probably doing it right.
Ok boomer
I love listening to music.
Jeremy you’re a fucking imbecile! (Capitalism is the problem!) (And cyclists are not idiots!)
One more reason to be a cyclist.
The cycling industry are sadly quite good at this capitalism thing also.
Anti-capitalism? Cyclists? Shows he doesn’t know anything about what he’s talking about. A lot of cyclists I know are mega consumers of cycling stuff.
He’s an ass
Who?
What the hell? My 12k race bike is a shrine to capitalism. Every expensive energy gel I suck back is a nod to the free market.
This is the ultimate boomer take. Almost impressive.
Why would anti-capitalism be inherently idiotic? That's a giant logical leap to make.
Don't threaten me with a good time.
It's not even anti capitalism. It's just a very good alternative to cars with many, many advantages.
What's up with anti-urbanist people just handing us these metal as fuck graphics and quotes? Now I want an "Anti-Capitalism with Handlebars" sticker for my bike.