Jeremy Clarkson lost two stone by cycling

Next on The Grand Tour - Clarkson compares the Bike Friday and the Brompton, Richard Hammond crashes a Quest Velomobile and James May rides a classic Masi in Italy.

He could lose another stone if he got rid of that useless organ on top of his neck.

The average human head only weighs about 9lbs, but his is bigger than most.

He lost two stone by changing his diet, and he happened to ride a bike while he was away - and you lot all fell for the clickbait 

But Jezza stands to benefit:

• Reduced all-cause mortality rate
• Reduced likelyhood of T2 Diabetes
• Reduced risk factors for dementia
• Improved mental health outcomes
• Reduced genetic signalling of ageing
• Reduced risk of heart disease
• Reduced cost of travel

And we stand to benefit from:

• 1 less car on the road
• Reduced emissions

Hmmm, I can start to see Jezza's point on this!

He's in large part responsible for the 'cyclists never stop at red lights' libel.   It'll take more than a desultory 'pro-cycling' comment thrown our way.  

Came from Donny so would have cycled like most in the 60s/70s, his parents sent him to 'posh' school were he had a shocking time of it apparently. Deep down I don't think he's actually that bad but he;s more interested in upholding his 'reputation', started believing his own hype/bullshit long ago and thinking he's important. Says what he likes pretty much, most of it to 'shock' but some of it I think because he's still a Northerner and is just like that but given what he comes out with and knowing that that holds weight he should curb what he says but won't because it's not commercial to hold back.

He needed to lose the weight because he was on a one way ticket to a heart attack IMHO, FFS he's only what, 58, he looks a lot lot older!

So now he's a MACIL.

 A few years ago I recall he said something along the lines of how he would drive into a group of cyclists on the road if they were riding 2 abreast/holding him up. Along with the line "I mean it, I really do" and that was why the Conservative party wouldn't have him on board.

I haven't had any time for him since, and suggest you don't either.

Good luck to him - that's going to be a big fitness/health boost for him. I bet he did enjoy cycling really though.

I don't mind Clarkson and occasionally find him laugh out loud funny. They often used bicycles in Top Gear, either for a race (which they usually won) or for stunts; the "get a car" stuff isn't to be taken seriously, although I'm aware that the Daily Mail end of their audience probably do.

Always worth reminding anyone who hasn't seen it to search YouTube for Stewart Lee's excellent Top Gear routine...

I trust this was after the latest series of The Grand Tour as he's got a fantastic beer belly going on there. If it grows much more he won't be able to fit behind the wheel.

Well done on the weight loss but you are still a blowhard.

I trust this was after the latest series of The Grand Tour as he's got a fantastic beer belly going on there. If it grows much more he won't be able to fit behind the wheel.

For some ironic reason the banner advert on my version of this page is the new range rover overfinch, my goodness, it is so ugly, it makes the Vielo R+1 look good.

But that doesn't mean that we can all stop calling him a fat useless  tub of lard

I haven't been following the utterances of Mr Clarkson lately, not since he ceased being funded by our TV licence fees, but that collection of recent quotes is very revealing.

He really is the cliche of an overgrown public schoolboy, who denigrates outsiders at home, but can recognize better ways to live when he experiences them abroad. Of course, he'll return to his old ways when back in Blighty, among his moronic mates, because belonging to a group is everything to people like him. He makes his living by using his moderate education to be a leading voice among those discontented that their conformity is being fully rewarded, but he's no freethinker. Nothing he has ever said is outside the mainstream, just the mainstream of thirty years ago. The sad thing is that there are people who buy his act, and think he's some kind of rebel. I ride in the Cotswolds regularly, where I understand he has his main home, but I'm never worried that I might be run off the road by Clarkson himself. But being given a punishment pass by a bogan who watches his TV programmes, or reads his Sun column, is a definite possibility. He'd like to think he's the motoring world's version of Stephen Fry, in terms of erudition and respect, but really his closest parallel is to Boris Johnson, who is the Clarkson of the political world.

But, hey, he's lost some weight, good for him.