Never heard of him, he's probably not exactly in same league as Gordon R, Rick Stein, even the Mockney Jamie Oliver! Must be trying to make a name for himself by being a bit controversial. Maybe times are tough in credit crunch times in the greasy spoon he probably runs next to that layby off the M40.

As for being in the countryside to be away from cyclists, there are a quite a few where I live, drive and cycle! He sounds like C list celeb wannabe c0ck to me.

Is he the same idiot that tried to complete the Mille Miglia in a £1 million car he bought. Failed to complete it, blamed other people, behaved like a spoilt brat, then could not sell the car as it had not completed the race as expected. He just came across as such a complete knob jockey, and that's after some quite sympathetic editing!

Yep, I saw him on the Mille Miglia thing too. As charm-free a wannabe as ever walked (or drove) the earth.

Great site that discusses just how ridiculous the Daily Mail is...

http://www.mailwatch.co.uk/

i want to shove a potato up the to**er's exhaust!!!

The guy's a to0l, always has been. The sad thing is he actually believes he's funny.

He's even upset Brad Wiggins. Warning tweet contains 'fruity' language: http://twitter.com/bradwiggins

What an arse this 'chef' is. He's obviously up his own a-hole with comments like this. Thanks to Bradley Wiggins for the tweet about this person. We shouldn't lower ourselves to be angry towards this TV gobshite... just turn the telly off when this f*****g programme starts... the mother f****r!!!

Won't buy/watch/read anything related to this idiot ever again. And will be telling everyone I know to do the same!

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Wikipedia already taken offline. I have contacted his PR people. limelight.management@virgin.net the mail, the bbc and various newspapers that really don't like the mail. I have a hopeful felling this will blow up in his face. Silly little man

http://www.londonfgss.com/thread29463.html

The bloke ironically looks like a spud. He has too much money and no talent. Once read an article on him in photography mag as he buys some serious kit but could not take a decent picture if it bit him on the nose. Abject twat, period.

What a dip-shit...

Its hard to believe that an editor of a national newspaper would allow this to run. Makes you wonder if they are looking for an excuse to sack him. Here's hoping!!!

Bring back Ainsley! Poor old Gordon R went today, let's hope this " toaster " goes the same way..

Has he not just admitted to road rage? I would have thought causing an accident, on purpose would be considered a criminal act. What if the cyclists had been seriously injured? Well there's on chef I won't cook books from.

http://www.pcc.org.uk/complaints/form.html

Press complaints comission form

The Mail on Sunday have deleted the last paragraph of the artcle from his review on line.

he did not complete the Mille Miglia because he had a new engine rebuilt and did not run it in. he just raged it from the start hence why it seized. lol you would have taught that someone so knowledgeable about cars would have known that he is a stupid idiot with to much money.

James Martin seems like an arrogant slob. It's a shame that so many young, fit, beautiful people are killed by people like him.

James who?? and the mail should really know better.

I think the hole situation is blown out of proportion.James Martin said some stupid things and I think he now regrets it.Give the man a break he is not so bad

Does anyone have a scan of the real article that appeared - I've lost the paper !

Vision267, I can't disagree with you more. I like to think of myself as a reasonable man but this guy is in the public eye and the paper should know a lot better than promoting hatred. Free speech does not include the promotion of hatred that puts lives in danger. The fact that someone of this status in the public eye promotes such things should be challenged.

The man is an ignorant buffoon - can only hope he carries on making fatty dishes and blocks up all his arteries before he kills someone. People like him deserve to be spit-roasted.

What is most telling in all this is that in the UK such anti-cyclist comments should be considered to be in any way 'funny'. It all reminds me of the way people like Bernard Manning and Jim Davidson claimed they were 'only joking' when spouting their racist bile. The parallels, are in fact very close, given that research by bodies such as the Transport Research Laboratory have concluded that hostility towards cyclists in Britain exists because cyclists are perceived to be members of a low status 'out-group' by motorists who consider themselves to be inherently superior. It's the age-old in-group / out-group, ‘untermenschen’ / ‘ubermenschen' psychology at work, and we all know where that can lead. It's also no coincidence that such articles so frequently appear in The Daily Mail, given that the ideology of that publication is essentially 'fascist' in outook.

For the record, that article in full...

The Tesla Roadster is the all-electric supercar that's as fast as a Ferrari

...but as quiet as a bicycle

Mail On Sunday. 13th September 2009

Can you be green, without ever wanting to hear another bleeding-heart word about the environment as long as you live?

I do my bit more than most: I recycle all my rubbish and sort it into three di¬fferent bins.

I turn all my kitchen waste into compost. Even my washing powder is twice-the-price organic stuff that doesn't give worms tummy-aches when it returns to the earth.

But whenever I drive to London, dutifully paying my £8 for the privilege (on top of my road tax, petrol tax, parking and all the other rip-offs), without fail a cyclist will rap on my window and make some holier-than-thou comment, before zooming off through a red light where he knows I can't get him.

God, I hate those cyclists. Every last herbal tea-drinking, Harriet Harman-voting one of them. That's one of the reasons I live in the countryside, where birds tweet, horses roam, pigs grunt and Lycra-clad buttocks are miles away. But recently, there's been a disturbing development.

Each Saturday, a big black truck appears at the bottom of my road, with bikes stuck to the roof and rear. Out of it step a bunch of City-boy ponces in fluorescent Spider-Man outfits, shades, bum bags and stupid cleated shoes, who then pedal around our narrow lanes four abreast with their private parts alarmingly apparent. Do they enjoy it? They never smile. I'm sure they just come here to wind me up.

Anyway, the other day Live sent me the new eco-friendly electric car. Not a G-Wiz (if they did that I'd be off ), but a Tesla Roadster, trumpeted as the world's first battery-powered sports car. It costs £90,000, does 130mph, but emits 89g/km less carbon than a Toyota Prius - ie, none at all.

So naturally, the first customers were tree-huggers Leonardo DiCaprio and George Clooney. It's very Californian, this car. Company boss Elon Musk is a Silicon Valley multimillionaire, so that's where they build them - but it's actually based on Norfolk's own Lotus Elise.

Not much of the Elise has survived the transformation: they had to strengthen the chassis and add six inches to its length to accommodate both the battery (actually 6,831 laptop batteries stuck together) and the powerful temperature control, without which it would overheat - and refuse to work in cold weather.

Where an Elise uses aluminium and glass fibre, this uses carbon fibre - and because it doesn't need the scoops and vents the Elise uses to cool its engine and brakes, it's got more aristocratic lines, almost like a grand tourer. I haven't seen anything quite like it before.

The wheels look good, but the tyres are low-rolling-resistance to extend its range, which means a harder ride and less grip. Thanks to that heavy pile of batteries, it handles a fair bit worse than an Elise, but it's still sporty.

The T-top roof (removable panels either side of a central strut) is a godsend, as during my test drive the sun made one of its brief appearances and it only took seconds to chuck the bits in the boot next to the recharging plug.

Yes, it uses an everyday 13-amp plug, charging up on just £3.50 of electricity - though you'll need to fit a 62-amp 'three phase' socket in your garage if you want to reduce the charge time from 16 hours to less than four.

Inside there isn't a lot - two seats that are comfortable up to a point, a cup-holder, a stereo and air con - but then you don't always expect luxuries in sports cars. Ferrari ripped the carpets, stereo and padding out of its 430, called it a special-edition 'Scuderia' and charged £30,000 extra, so it's quite commonplace. I promise you, in the Tesla you don't notice anything except the acceleration.

This could go head-to-head with any Ferrari, hitting 60mph from a standing start in 3.9 seconds. But what completely freaked me out was that it does it in complete silence. At the speed limit, I could still hear the birds tweeting in the bushes.

Adding to the out-of-body experience, there's absolutely no power lag: put your foot down and you instantly get the entire 380Nm of thrust - all coming, unbelievably, from a motor the size of a cabbage with just two moving parts (moving at up to 14,000rpm).

I had this car for six hours - partly because they needed to get it back to the showroom in Knightsbridge, but also because it only had enough juice in it for 120 miles, after which it needs to be recharged overnight.

You may think that's a huge drawback for a sports car, and I agree. I like to drive to the Essen Motor Show in Germany at this time of year. In this, it would take two or three days - assuming you could find somewhere to plug it in... and I've just remembered the plugs are a di fferent shape in Europe. It's a logistical nightmare.

But I don't care about any of that, and here's why. Twenty minutes into my test drive I pulled round a leafy bend, enjoying the birdsong - and spotted those damned Spider-Man cyclists. Knowing they wouldn't hear me coming, I stepped on the gas, waited until the split second before I overtook them, then gave them an almighty blast on the horn at the exact same time I passed them at speed.

The look of sheer terror as they tottered into the hedge was the best thing I've ever seen in my rear-view mirror. I think this could be the car for me.

I don't like herbal tea or Harriot Harman. Never knowingly cycled along a country lane with my 'private parts alarmingly apparent' either. This guys sadly seems to exist in a reality all of his own where he thinks his opinions mean something.

I reckon we should find out where he lives and cycle up and down outside his house drinking tea

Shouldn't worry too much about the impact of his article. Anybody with any brains knows the Daily Wail is just badly printed toilet paper.

Big Dave wrote:

"Shouldn't worry too much about the impact of his article. Anybody with any brains knows the Daily Wail is just badly printed toilet paper."

A rather complacent attitude given that the 'Hate Mail' is one of the biggest selling papers in the UK, and article such as this can be expected to validate and reinforce the prejudices of it's millions of cyclist-hating, right wing, out-group fearing readers.

Anyone who buys, reads or recites the Daily Mailicious is a bigger tw@ than James Martin.