Daily Mail in cycling shocker!

I hope his washing machine malfunctions and doesnt rinse the powder out of his trousers. Leaving him with an incredibly painful rash. That stops him from sleeping for a week.*

(*I've only just recovered from this. It was hell)

the pedal-bothering community

I do love Lester Haines turn of phrase. May have to find a way to incorporate this next time there's a LFGSS design comp. Lovely.

I hope he trips a little on an uneven pavement causing him to make an involuntary wimper within earshot of an attractive woman

I hope that his keys catch on his trouser pockets causing him to have to fiddle with them for several moments in front of an unnoticed passing crowd of nuns and their child charges.

I hope his new white T-shirt has an itchy label

I hope that he test drives a Lambo on mikec's day off.

I hope he gets to read all this.

I hope he misses out a challanging phrase when sightreading the 8th horn part of Wagner's epic opera Gotterdammerung only to find it is a solo and there is nothing but silence in the auditorium.

I hope the phone rings when he is cooking pasta, and when he returns to the kitchen it has stuck to the pan.

I hope that Inland Revenue sting him badly for not declaring his income from that fascist paper he writes for.

I hope that when he is dressing in the gym after a workout, he puts his socked feet into a small pool of water meaning that he has to place a damp sock into his shoe.

I hope he cant touch type and a mischiveous colleague reverses approximately 3-4 of the vowels on his keyboard and he becomes angry.

I hope he gets taken to court over his inflammatory comments and engages Cliveo as his lawyer.

Wikipedia article now updated with a link to this thread and the one on bikeradar, they seem to have let me keep that as it has been edited by official types since and remained.

Also linked from there is the response from the electric car manufacturer:
http://www.thefredcast.com/?p=904

I hope he mistakenly buys the diet version of his favourite fruit squash at the supermarket, and once he's got home and opened it realises it doesn't taste quite as nice.

I hope he needs a shower after a swim and the only one available is between two huge, fat, ugly completely naked men. Then the water goes cold just when he's put the shampoo in.

I hope the next time he takes his convertible for a spin in the country side it rains and he can't close the roof.

Comments back up on the Mail site.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1211917/JAMES-MARTIN-The-Tesla-Roadster-electric-supercar-thats-fast-Ferrari.html

I hope he gets twenty paper cuts in his fingers and he needs to deliver his piece to that fascist paper that he works for.

I hope he treads in dog poo and walks it into his new carpet.

Comments back up on the Mail site.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1211917/JAMES-MARTIN-The-Tesla-Roadster-electric-supercar-thats-fast-Ferrari.html

That's a surprise.

I hope he misses out a challanging phrase when sightreading the 8th horn part of Wagner's epic opera Gotterdammerung only to find it is a solo and there is nothing but silence in the auditorium.

Happened to me at the royal festival hall, only it wasn't Wagner, and I wasn't sightreading. Still sends shivers down my spine...

Article has been edited to remove the "hedge incident"

I hope he gets on the tube one day for the first time, and makes a little airplane from his tube ticket and seeing how far it can fly down the carriage then realises his error when he comes to the exit gate.

The legend that is Robbie McEwen:

Quote:
James Martin, you are an absolute moron. Even if you are making up the bit about cyclists ( there are enough pea-brains out there doing it for real), it's not even remotely funny.
These bunches of cyclists you complain about are men, women & CHILDREN. The adults amongst them also drive cars you idiot.

AND, get with the times GENIUS. Top Gear reviewed this car ages ago. Jeremy Clarkeson isn't by any means a cycling/cyclist fan but I'm sure he doesn't proclaim to be a menace to other road users and find it funny to risk others lives just to write a piss poor article.
While I'm on it, if you were any sort of respected car review journo, you would have gotten a track test months ago. But, they don't invite idiots.

Lastly, as for being confronted by "private parts alarmingly apparent" - keep your eyes on the road!

Go and get a life

• Robbie McEwen, Gold Coast, Australia & Brakel, Belgium, 14/9/2009 14:27