Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson hits out at cyclists: "Work hard and get a car"

And so is this...

The sad thing is he has so many fans that the abuse we all suffer on roads is going to get worse!

Top Gear is just Loose Women with men. And they're all tw*ts.

who's clarkson then

Clarkson is a public school ponce and a bore of the lowest order.

I've never worked hard in my life and I don't intend to either. Death to car culture and death to the work ethic.

No harm done. The Michael Winner of motoring. As so many have commented above - it's Clarkson! He's a product of the late twentieth century and a great entertainer! Whatever he spouts may be picked up but some ill-informed bigots, but they'd be ill-informed bigots regardless. Can't wait for next weeks edition of Top Gear.

Yep It's Clarkson ... get over it!
Someone should point out to him that he doesn't pay "road tax" either ... It's Vehicle Excise duty car owners pay (and so do most cyclists)! We all pay taxes of which some goes to the upkeep of the roads (sometimes!)

The problem is Clarkson's cretinous fans who hang on his every word. I dare say a lot more "get off the road" and "you don't pay road tax" comments have hurled at cyclists this morning.

These sort of people probably reacted to the Mexican comments by laughing along, displaying little more than ignorance.

If they react to the cyclist comments by attempting to assert their dominance on the roads, the consequences could prove fatal.

Rob

Be good if those Chipping Norton cyclists rode passed dressed as Mexicans.

I love Clarkson whenever he sounds off about cycling it gets people talking about it and for among the haters there's always someone who thinks "maybe I'll give it a go"… I'd credit him with helping to start Britain's cycling renaissance

Plus in a funny sort of a way, if Top Gear has to correct or apologise for getting it wrong on "Road Tax" that will get the message across to far more people that need to know it than pretty much any other medium.

If you were in a saloon bar of a pub and someone started spouting his nonsense you'd just ignore them surely?

This sit-com is probably the BBC's most profitable franchise, aimed globally at overgrown VIth formers with a petrol habit, so what is the point of rising to Clarkson's tedious baiting? He is a poseur aiming to get a rise out of people and in so doing ensure more publicity for his inane and vulgar programme and more money for him and his bitches Hammond and May.

A bit of an overreaction from the cycling community methinks. Bear in mind that Hammond is there as a counterpoint to Clarkson's views on this, and that they deliberately say provocative things (Clarkson in particular) to wind each other (and the public) up.

That said, if the 'protest' ride is done in the same vein as the original comments (a deliberate wind up intended to get an amusing reaction) then I guess it's just playing the game.

Clarkson is a fool, but it wasn't that bad, he says these things for effect and if everyone reacts it works, riding round his front gate, surely that is a form of harassment and bullying? There are far more motorists out there with a worse attitude than him

Oh for goodness sake. It's Clarkson. He's a cretin. He presents a programme for cretins. We should be delighted that in the very midst of the driving and chauvinism programme for cretins the best looking and funniest presenter is taking the cretin to task for his trolling.

The one thing that really won't influence him in any way is the collected outraged cyclists of Chipping Norton riding past his house. He's just weathered an official diplomatic protest from a populous sovereign state...