andypugh2000

Anyone else just heard him having a war of words with some rambler environmentalist over his driving up the mountain stunt, it was hilarious

his hit back over ramblers spoiling a good mountain view was class

Pbr

Clarkson was full of sh*t as usual. I'm not a rambler but to say the Ramblers Association are a branch of the communist party, WTF? I am however a mountain biker and I've seen first hand the damage done to green lanes by these selfish morons in 4 wheel drive vehicles. The countryside needs protecting from these people and Clarkson was setting a very poor example.

And for him to try and turn it into an issue of freedom is laughable. What about other peoples freedom NOT to have the country lanes churned up and rendered inaccessible? Unless laws are in place to regulate this kind of behaviour it will go on regardless because some people are inherently inconsiderate, give them an inch and they take a mile.

Dracoro

Stupid anyway, they drove up ONE mountain ONCE, probably never to drive up there again. I wanna know who's gonna clear the crap that ramblers leave over the place. Horrbile footprints all over the nice meadows etc.

Geezer

You should see the damage done to some trails by us by mountain bikers.

I don't see the difference to be honest. Right to roam is right to roam, does it matter what you are in?

OK, 4wd vehicles are gonna cause more damage then bikes, and bikes more than people, but how many times do you see 4wds doing what he did? I see huge numbers of people walking the trails by us, a fair number of bikers and 4wds on them once in a blue moon.

The Ramblers Association seem to think they have some devine right to wander whereever the **** they want in limitless numbers, but whine at people like Clarkson who was demonstrating how good British engineering is in an unusal way. Tossers.

Geezer

Pbr

Here you go, here's an example of a green lane near where I live ruined by the four wheel drive brigade.



Morons. Fortunately they are now banned from here.

Would LOVE to see some picture evidence of this!

Brendan Hughes

I'd like to see Clarkson take an armed Hummer past Mr van Hoogstraten's pile in Sussex. Now THAT would be reality TV...

Sonic_Danny

Cant believe these morons get so wound up over Jezza driving up a hill once!!!!!!!!!

Very entertaining, they should test all 4wd in that way!

Brendan Hughes

Erm - wouldn't be once then, would it?

Iwan

I was given a right b0ll0cking for being on my mountain bike by a National Trust bloke (on a 6 wheel quad type thing) near the top of Pen-y-Fan in Wales once. He told me that bike tyres concentrate the force in a smaller area then people walking due to the small contact patch so do more damage than walkers (sounds reasonable). Plus skidding the back tyre cuts into the ground and forms channels that grow bigger when rainwater runs down them.

I asked him why they were allowed to use the 6 wheelers and he explained that the contact area was spread out over 6 big soft low-pressure tyres therefore caused less damage tan a person walking.

Gidney&Knowlesy

On parks near us the mountain bike does more damage to the grass than the quad bike, due to contact pressure & the psi of the quads tyres of less than 4psi. Truly amazing.

That said we are the worst enemy to our planet.......quad, 4x4, mountain bike, global warming etc etc I doubt one group could be blamed more than anyother

Jap2Scrap

Doesn't that now form a natural culvert thereby providing essential irrigation to the neighbouring grasses?

Maybe not.

RB5193

Jeremy Vine Program Radio 2 Tuesday 16th November

Select Listen again, Tuesdays show, and fast forward to about 30 minutes in.

George for christ sake let Jeremy get a word in

Tiggs

listened...clarkson sounds like a **** as normal.

Senior_AP

Setting a poor example???

So, if Clarkson say's jump off a cliff everyone would?

Bloody hell.

anc-sti

Were you on a bridleway? If yes tell them to sod off, if not he has every right to get miffed.



Basically everyone who visits the outdoors causes damage some more than others true. If you look at the fells up here in the lakes there is huge damage caused by walkers.



The environmental impact of a reasonably ridden mtb causes no more or slightly less damage than a set of boots but it still does cause damage.



It’s all about managing that impact that’s why we have footpaths and bridleways.



Obviously driving 4x4's up mountains is a bit stupid on Mr Clarkson’s part, but not only environmentally. He's opened a can of worms there and could have even helped the 'ban 4x4 cause'. Had he drive it through a muddy forest know one would have batted an eyelid.



These things have to be managed because there just to many of us, there should be areas were you could take your 4x4 or enduro bike to ensure as little impact on the environment as possible.

BOB.T

I thought the tree hugger was a *****!

(I've no idea who he was, what he stands for, I don't care what you think about me thinking he's a *****, it's my choice so **** off!)

unclebuck

Clarkson for PM

Wish

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Ive got a Suzuki DRZ 400 and love tearing up the countryside !
Who need to walk anyway !

Spoon

I can't help thinking motorists need guys like Clarkson to stave off the attacks that appear more frequent as weeks pass.

mj

JUST ABOUT TO LISTEN TO IT WHEN FLEETWOOD MAC FINISH, WHATEVER CLARKSON SAYS IS GENERALLY PRETTY GOOD....


apologies for the big letters, he's on!!

unclebuck

I remember Clarkson saying on his return to doing Top Gear in the now familiar 'new' format that the reason he had decidied to do it was because in a few years making such programmes featuring big powerful cars tearing around would no longer be possible as they would be legislated out of existance. How right he is being proved to be.

UB

mj

just listening...who is this ***** with JV???

andypugh2000

I agree, Imagine the heart attack these do gooders would have if they knew the emmisions all us irresponsible retarded ******** were pumping out into our fragile environment with our boy racer de cats, do I care?? do I hell

mj

fookin brill, go JC

Markus

pmsl! Very true Brendan.

mj

oh dear, poor JC.


Excelled I thought, even more kudos to him considering he was squared up against such a pair of dicks.

words to the effect of....( and off the cuff on the radio)....

******** : "so why do people need 4X4's in towns?"

JC: They don't, thats why we drove it up a mountain in scotland "



sorry, but he is the man.

11/10.

andypugh2000

Im still chuckling about the pink kagoul wearing ramblers that spoil the view from his house every weekend, sheer class

Daryl

It might sound trite, but, when you compare that damage to what nature itself inflicts, it's pretty insignificant.

Also, would you be complaining if a local farmer had done that in his tractor?

mj

off topic maybe, but I'm still liteneing to the JV recoreded show....


at the mo, he's interviewing Andy McNab, and JV is qiuet as a mouse

****head of a DJ.

CLSII

Must say I was appalled at this one sided and abusive diatribe. JC was so restrained under provocation and extreme abuse. I would have expected him to explode after some of the things the tree hugger called him.

JC has risen in my estimation and I was impressed at his ability to resist the temptation to resort to the same kind of abuse he was subjected to.

It was the first time I have ever listened to this so called interviewer. Is he as incompetent as he seemed or was he merely being controversial by not reigning in the self important publicity seeking half wit who subjected JC to this tirade?