Celebrity chef stirs up cyclist hate campaign

Cyclists hit back after James Martin's 'offensive and dangerous' comments in the Mail on Sunday The celebrity chef James Martin – the Yorkshire one off Saturday Kitchen who puts butter in everything – has incurred the wrath of cyclists including Bradley Wiggins after writing a cyclist-baiting article in the Mail on Sunday. Martin, who moonlights as a motoring correspondent for the paper, wrote this weekend of his hatred for "herbal tea-drinking, Harriet Harman-voting" cyclists (surely we Guardian types have copyright on such insults?) He was fed up, he said, of the "city-boy ponces in fluorescent Spider-Man outfits, shades, bum bags and stupid cleated shoes" who pedal around the lanes near his country residence "with their private parts alarmingly apparent." So far, so predictable. But in a review of the Tesla electric car... [read full story]                    

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