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greenlaning on topgear,
flash42:
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:
--- 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...
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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:
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:
Well I guess we could murder them? That's what we do apparently?
Eeyore:
--- 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.
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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.
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