Top Gear...For Bikes :-)

jame58rown
jame58rown Posts: 263
edited February 2011 in The bottom bracket
Just watching Top Gear and thinking about how cool it would be to have a Top Gear type programme for bicycles :D

It could be called: '53-11' :lol:

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  • blade8
    blade8 Posts: 43
    email hamond you never know , you could be on to something :lol:
  • jame58rown
    jame58rown Posts: 263
    lol

    There are so many bikes and the choice is bewildering and there's more getting made every year. It gotta be doable :lol:
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    Clarkson in lycra. No thanks. :D
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  • jame58rown
    jame58rown Posts: 263
    Ben6899 wrote:
    Clarkson in lycra...

    AAARRRGGGHHH!
  • leeroy72
    leeroy72 Posts: 330
    James May is a helmet never mind wearing one...
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  • bartimaeus
    bartimaeus Posts: 1,812
    My top gear is 44-11... and I rarely get to use it :o
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  • Mr Dog
    Mr Dog Posts: 643
    I'd happily fight Clarkson for Children in Need, (or just for fun). I'd be giving away stones and inches in reach. Lycra clad I'd gladly punch his smug face. :twisted:
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  • StillGoing
    StillGoing Posts: 5,211
    Clarkson in cement wellies being pushed into the Thames has got to be worth a try for Children in need?
    I ride a bike. Doesn't make me green or a tree hugger. I drive a car too.
  • tlw1
    tlw1 Posts: 22,093
    I get the feeling Clarkson isn't loved here!
  • northernneil
    northernneil Posts: 1,549
    hes a controversial character but miles away from Adam Raynor

    I love him, he is an excellent presenter, makes me laugh and his writing is excellent

    top gear is by far and away my favorite programme, but we have covered this ground A LOT before
  • Dancing Bear
    Dancing Bear Posts: 185
    matthew h wrote:
    I get the feeling Clarkson isn't loved here!
    not just Clarkson - all 3 of them, dont you wish Top gear returned to a motoring programme about (erm) cars, not egos /
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  • jame58rown
    jame58rown Posts: 263
    Well I think Jeremy's cool. His writing and presenting is great imo, he never fails to make me laugh. :D

    Of course the shows set up and stuff, but that's part of the humour.

    Anyway, a checklist for the presenters on 53-11:

    They don't wind people up.
    Look decent in lycra
    One of them's a hot girl (since they will all be wearing lycra) :wink:

    Should the show be entirely road, or have some MTB as well?
  • tlw1
    tlw1 Posts: 22,093
    If its top gear esq - the presenters need to wind a few groups of people up!

    Got to include MTB, as you get 4x4's on Top Gear
  • OffTheBackAdam
    OffTheBackAdam Posts: 1,869
    A Star on a reasonably priced bike?
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  • OffTheBackAdam
    OffTheBackAdam Posts: 1,869
    Dancing Bear wrote:
    not just Clarkson - all 3 of them, dont you wish Top gear returned to a motoring programme about (erm) cars, not egos /
    Nope, it's entertainment, if I want to know about a car, I'll pop out and buy "Which", or watch "Fifth Gear".
    I liked their piss-take from last week, when Bentley wouldn't supply them with the car to do their Albanian mafia comparison, so they just subbed an old FIAT clone!
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  • freehub
    freehub Posts: 4,257
    OffTheBackAdam wrote:
    A Star on a reasonably priced bike?

    The whole hour of the show would be dedicated to them going round the track.... :lol:
  • Sirius631
    Sirius631 Posts: 991
    Mr Dog wrote:
    I'd happily fight Clarkson for Children in Need, (or just for fun). I'd be giving away stones and inches in reach. Lycra clad I'd gladly punch his smug face. :twisted:

    I'd like Clarkson to sit a driving test theory paper for Comic Relief. That would be eye opening.
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  • jame58rown
    jame58rown Posts: 263
    OffTheBackAdam wrote:
    A Star on a reasonably priced bike?

    Lol, I can see it now:

    "...And this week, Cameron Diaz rides our Specialized Allez around the velodrome..."
    "...the stig (or the bicycles equivalent i.e. an ex pro cyclist) rides the colnago M10"
    "...And Jeremy (or 53-11's equivalent) tests the Cannondale CAAD10 on alpe d'huez"
    "...But first, what happens when you buy 3 second hand full sussers for under £500 and put them on one of the hardest downhill mountainbike courses...in the world..."

    :lol:
  • Matt the Tester
    Matt the Tester Posts: 1,261
    Ben6899 wrote:
    Clarkson in lycra. No thanks. :D
    NOW THAT WOULD BE FUNNY!

    but at the same time im slightly worried about ever seeing him in lycra :S lol.


    but yea that would be an epic program :D
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  • richk
    richk Posts: 564
    OffTheBackAdam wrote:
    A Star on a reasonably priced bike?

    Lap of Richmond Park on a Boris Bike?
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  • mroli
    mroli Posts: 3,622
    Better make it Regent's Park - not sure if the Boris bikes go as far as Richmond.
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  • 2Phat4Rapha
    2Phat4Rapha Posts: 238
    Who da Stigg? Nominations please ...

    Actually, the idea of fatty, nerd and short-@rse doing a cycling special for Sport Relief sounds like a great idea. Perhaps a whole hour might be a bit much but maybe three challenges such as

    A lycra-clad TT or a couple of laps of the Box Hill stage of the upcoming olympic course

    A polo match on fixies (help lfgss)

    An off-road downhill.

    VP for Stigg :wink:

    that fat Rayner bloke on a BSO around the TG track :twisted:

    :lol:
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  • unixnerd
    unixnerd Posts: 2,864
    Who da Stigg? Nominations please ...

    New job for Contrador, he's available I'm told..........
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  • Nuggs
    Nuggs Posts: 1,804
    unixnerd wrote:
    Who da Stigg? Nominations please ...

    New job for Contrador, he's available I'm told..........
    Nope, 2P4R got it right. Victoria's the natural choice; viewing figures would be assured!
  • Flasheart
    Flasheart Posts: 1,278
    2Phat4Rapha wrote:
    that fat Rayner bloke on a BSO around the TG track :twisted:

    :lol:

    Rather see the fattw*t try and make his way along a minor road...like the A1 :twisted:
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    Why send the celebrity guest around a dull airfield or a velodrome? Send them round a BMX course, I say.
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  • bianchimoon
    bianchimoon Posts: 3,942
    Flasheart wrote:
    2Phat4Rapha wrote:
    that fat Rayner bloke on a BSO around the TG track :twisted:

    :lol:

    Rather see the fattw*t try and make his way along a minor road...like the A1 :twisted:
    unfortunately chances are he wouldn't get hit as he'd get a police escort front and rear, for being such a wide load
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  • Mettan
    Mettan Posts: 2,103
    I can just see it now - one of the weekly 'funny stunts' will be a car running over a cyclist - nothing new 'suppose.

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