Topic: greenlaning on topgear, (Read 8009 times)

flash42 · « **on:** July 20, 2008, 20:49:07 »

tune in now :)

annabelle · « **Reply #1 on:** July 20, 2008, 20:54:01 »

Watching now!

Thrasher · « **Reply #2 on:** July 20, 2008, 20:57:45 »

Well that's just done more damage to our hobby than anything I've seen on youtube :(

flash42 · « **Reply #3 on:** July 20, 2008, 21:01:38 »

tbh. i dont think any of the land he went on were greenlanes. it looked all private land to me.
and you got to give the terios its dues, it looked fairly good in the sticky stuff.

andygod · « **Reply #4 on:** July 20, 2008, 21:03:17 »

Brilliant :D :D :clap: :clap:

DoubleTop · « **Reply #5 on:** July 20, 2008, 21:04:06 »

Quote from: Thrasher on July 20, 2008, 20:57:45

Well that's just done more damage to our hobby than anything I've seen on youtube :(

I'm afraid I sat here thinking the same :(

DT.

davidlandy · « **Reply #6 on:** July 20, 2008, 21:06:14 »

very funny

typical TG attitude towards things so I dont think any damage would be done.

Eeyore · « **Reply #7 on:** July 20, 2008, 21:07:32 »

Private land or not, it was called 'greenlaning' - he broke through hedges, pulled donuts in fields.

...and he called it 'greenlaning'. Now every bobble-hat will think that when we go laning, that's what we do. Even them that know otherwise will point to TG as evidence of the way we drive, even if not where we drive.

Idiots. :roll:

V8MoneyPit · « **Reply #8 on:** July 20, 2008, 21:11:58 »

Before it even started, I said to Sarah it was going to be a bad reflection on greenlaning. I am so dissapointed that I was right.

gtomo2 · « **Reply #9 on:** July 20, 2008, 21:13:41 »

Thanks top gear they have just put our hobby back years. nice black landy they used as a camera car though.

Onan The Barbarian · « **Reply #10 on:** July 20, 2008, 21:13:58 »

I have to say, I sometimes despair at Top Gear... their attitude to just about everything is so cavalier, they do driving, and vehicle ownership in general, no service at all! Sure, they have lots of fun, but I don't think they ever consider the knock-on effect their antics have! :roll:

Quite honestly, if they were not as famous as they are, we'd all be calling them a bunch of chavs! [-X

V8MoneyPit · « **Reply #11 on:** July 20, 2008, 21:17:13 »

I do find a conflict in my mind. It is fair to say I find TG entertaining. Even this article was entertaining. I just know it was not good politics.

crusader · « **Reply #12 on:** July 20, 2008, 21:19:01 »

I watched with interest and thought to myself that i would like to put up a poll
Because i think they have done nothing except HARM Greenlaneing :x

thermidorthelobster · « **Reply #13 on:** July 20, 2008, 21:24:32 »

I'm torn between being really annoyed that the bunch of ignorant cretins have walked all over our hobby, and being slightly satisfied that now you'll agree I was right about them being ignorant cretins all along.

Clarkson should be Prime Minister? Clarkson should be shot, more like. Loser.

MissMud08 · « **Reply #14 on:** July 20, 2008, 21:25:54 »

Have to say, I sat watching it cringing, not only will it have done greenlaning no good (even though that appeared to be all on private land), it undoubtedly won't have done the hunting fraternity much good either.

Thrasher · « **Reply #15 on:** July 20, 2008, 21:29:40 »

...what was Hamster on about, up to your waist in mud and winching... ON A LANE????? <sigh>

He should know better being an LR nut .... :(

gtomo2 · « **Reply #16 on:** July 20, 2008, 21:32:07 »

think we need a mass complant to top gear and say if they want to try laning to come out with a group of us and se how it should be done.

thermidorthelobster · « **Reply #17 on:** July 20, 2008, 21:34:56 »

Trouble is, the arrogant gits stick two fingers up at anybody who has the nerve to criticise them. Mass protest on their circuit, I say!

Mark_Solesbury · « **Reply #18 on:** July 20, 2008, 21:38:28 »

Hmm..

Said to Becky that this might be bad for us lot!

Not wearing a seatbelt the whole time tends to point to me that it was all private land... Shame the 'G' word was used.

I thought it was funny - i can appreciate others might not :S

crusader · « **Reply #19 on:** July 20, 2008, 21:39:51 »

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thermidorthelobster Mass protest on their circuit, I say!

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OoooooH I so Definately agree with this!!!!

flash42 · « **Reply #20 on:** July 20, 2008, 21:40:25 »

to be honest it looked more like the kind of driving you would use on a pay and play site, maybe they just got the terms mixed up :)

thermidorthelobster · « **Reply #21 on:** July 20, 2008, 21:43:26 »

Quote from: Mark_Solesbury on July 20, 2008, 21:38:28

Not wearing a seatbelt the whole time tends to point to me that it was all private land...

They've linked Green Laning, which people associate with 4x4s driving down country tracks, with being up to your neck in mud and thundering around fields and ditches at 60mph throwing bits of countryside everywhere. To the majority of Top Gear viewers, who don't know the full story, that's what Green Laning now means. Way to get it banned.

And of course Richard Hammond knows a thing or two about Land Rovers, so it's natural to assume he knows what he's talking about, and he's not just an ignorant pillock.

lambert · « **Reply #22 on:** July 20, 2008, 21:44:59 »

Should we who do know better not be worried by and doing something about the image of our pass time? After all no matter how much we moan about how top gear show us in a bad light it does suggest an underlying problem with our public image.

Thrasher · « **Reply #23 on:** July 20, 2008, 21:51:44 »

Well I guess we could murder them? That's what we do apparently?

Eeyore · « **Reply #24 on:** July 20, 2008, 21:54:36 »

Quote from: Bigbluemaverick on July 20, 2008, 21:44:59

Should we who do know better not be worried by and doing something about the image of our pass time? After all no matter how much we moan about how top gear show us in a bad light it does suggest an underlying problem with our public image.

One problem from the past is that Top Gear hasn't been interested in showing our side of the story. In fact, apart from a few specialist mags, there is very little interest in showing a positive spin on laning. It seems there's too much copy to be sold by making us out as the bad guys.

So we need 'factual' programmes (ike Top Gear) to stand up for us, not stamp on our fingers whilst we're clinging on.

redhand · « **Reply #25 on:** July 20, 2008, 22:14:28 »

Just done my Mr Angry "That'd better have not been filmed on a public road or I'm contacting the plod" type email to the Topgear website. For all the good it'll do.

GREENI · « **Reply #26 on:** July 20, 2008, 22:20:02 »

As I just put in the poll topic...

Top Gear is funny and entertaining....so was the Green Lane topic.... BRAVO

pux · « **Reply #27 on:** July 20, 2008, 22:24:45 »

lets all jump and down and get really mad at TG :roll: :roll: we are doomed with out there help and if the antis really want to use what top gear has used as "GREENLANING" Then the anti's are really morons :roll: i mean come on it was pretty obvious it was private land

Thrasher · « **Reply #28 on:** July 20, 2008, 22:26:57 »

Obvious to *US*, but not to the Sun readers. Large estate wouldn't you say if they weren't lying about the distances?

pux · « **Reply #29 on:** July 20, 2008, 22:34:39 »

Quote from: Thrasher on July 20, 2008, 22:26:57

Obvious to *US*, but not to the Sun readers. Large estate wouldn't you say if they weren't lying about the distances?

fullu understand what your saying there Neil, but this will be this weeks anti's news and then next week they will find something else!!! there is always something for the anti's to use against us :roll: :roll: so let them be as thick enough to use this and say this is greenlaning at it's worse blah blah just shows how tiny minded they are :lol: :lol:

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