Why isn't there?

[quacker_boy]

Well, a program like Top Gear for bikes? Currently watching Men and Motors and there's some program on about bikes now but it made me think why isn't there a program that's like Top Gear with bikes for us?!
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[MoshizZ]

I dont actually know...maybe it wouldnt get as many viewers as top gear...

Maybe their should be, with the guys from long way down presenting it.
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[.Chris.]

Would be nice to have Hammond doing Top Gear features on bikes now and then. It would also be amusing for their 'challenges' to involve bikes in some way.

I seem to remember the old format Top Gear had Steve Berry doing reports on bikes which were fairly good from what I remember.
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[ms51ves3]

I guess it's cause the bike market is a lot smaller than the car market. Plus there are more cars on the roads than bikes making cars more of a relevant topic.

Mark

[Ben.]

top gear are so anti bike, did you see last weeks program about the race through london, every mode of transport except a bike, and guess which one would have won
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[deanoet]

Isnt it something rediculous that 2% of road users are bikers?

So they wouldnt get the viewers.
5th Gear on channel 5 do bikes every so often. Not so much an article on them, just features. There was that race with the car recently(ish), and there was a trial type thing where some stunt riders did some stunts using the presenters as obsticles.
They also did one on one of the presenters doing the CBT and then bike test. Was that 5th gear?

Only time i have seen a bike on top gear was when hammond tried to put one on the cool board and Clarkson chainsawed it out.
Oh and Neil Morrissy(sp) mentioned them as he enjoys biking
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[Skudd]

Most can get a car to do track stuff like wheel spins slides tec but few can do the basics on a bike.
Also can you imagine " A star on a reasonably priced bike" ? First corner................ call the ambulance. As for the Stig. That smug git would well be punted off.
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[panrider_uk]

men & Motors used to do a programme called Four Wheels Good which was usually followed by a programme called Two Wheels Better.

Mark
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[The Tot]

I cant remember the programme that used to be on a while ago presented by Vicki Butler Henderson and Steve Berry. It was rather pants mind, and on TV, i'd rather see bikes getting ridiculed because you prove your point on the road It all makes for fun entertainment. Shows like that aren't going to convert people into biking, since view it as a passion, a hobby, not necessarily a necessity . McGee is well up for making a programme like such though.
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[tomski_w]

Check out Bikes Aloud on Men And Motors (Sky or cable only)

Also, check this and this
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[st3v3]

Most people relate bikes to commuters in London or cruiser/chopper types.

No producer would want to give a decent slot to such an 'insignificant' cause. But I reckon if they did, more would realize how close a prospect of bikes were and buy one.
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[colin1]

top gear isnt really about cars anymore, its more of an entertainment show
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[st3v3]

Which still features cars, thus a car show with entertainment, but a car show all the same.
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[colin1]

i think you mean an entertainment show with cars in it
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[st3v3]

No. I mean an entertaining car show. Now I'm prepared to agree to dis-agree because I'm not willing to participate in another of your pointless "discussions".
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[mrlee1974]

And also.........

we have car commercials,so why dont we have adverts on TV for bike's? so what if we are only 2% of road user's.
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[deanoet]

[st3v3]

Issue is you can a C3 or 206 etc as a family car, not solely for one's enjoyment but which everyone benefits, where do you really strap the wife and baby seat on an R1 or even CBR etc?
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