Jeremy Vine‘s bike has been stolen just days after he accused motorists of having ‘small d*** energy’ and claimed they weren’t getting enough sex.
The broadcaster, who frequently films dangerous drivers whilst he cycles, revealed how he was left with only his helmet after thieves took the bicycle.
Appearing on BBC Radio 2 today, the 59-year-old told host Rylan Clark: ‘My bicycle was stolen outside my house.
‘I used two strong chains, but unfortunately, they were wrapped around something that wasn’t strong. It’s such a lesson.’
‘I’m walking around just with a cycle helmet on now’, he added.
It comes after Vine sparked fury from drivers when he made controversial remarks about their private lives while appearing on Gaby Roslin’s podcast.
He pushed back against her suggestion that road rage stems from personal struggles and instead suggested it could be caused by an unsatisfying sex life.
Roslin said: ‘The people who get angry, someone’s pulled out in front of them and they yell get out the way and they hoot and all that. Whether it’s bicycles or a car or whatever it is. I always say, but you don’t know what happened in their life?’
Vine responded: ‘Do you? Oh gosh.’
Jeremy Vine ‘s bike has been stolen just days after he accused motorists of having ‘small d*** energy’ and said they aren’t getting enough sex
It comes after Vine sparked fury from drivers when he made controversial remarks about their private lives while appearing on Gaby Roslin’s podcast
Appearing on BBC Radio 2 today, the 59-year-old told host Rylan Clark : ‘My bicycle was stolen outside my house. ‘I used two strong chains, but unfortunately, they were wrapped around something that wasn’t strong. It’s such a lesson’
‘Yes, you can’t get angry,’ Roslain said. ‘Because they might be rushing because their mother’s not well. Something might have happened to their child.’
Vine replied: ‘That’s how lovely you are because I’m different. I just say that’s what they call small d*** energy. That he’s not getting enough.’
He added: ‘What happens is, all the people who are not getting enough sex lock themselves in small metal boxes and drive around London. That’s fundamentally what’s going on in our society. It’s so lovely of you to take such a positive view of it.’
This isn’t the first time the TV show host has used sexually charged language when describing motorists — he’s previously referred to them as ‘petrosexuals’.
Vine’s reputation as a cycling advocate is well established.
He once submitted four clips in a single day to the police — two for drivers passing too closely, and two for using mobile phones behind the wheel.
Although Clark thinks many drivers will ‘breathe a big sigh of relief’ now that Vine is not on the road, the broadcaster said he had already planned to stop riding with a camera.
‘I’ve decided to stop the filming and just cycle with truth and love in my heart’, he declared.
Vine also hinted it might be quite some time before he cycles again, ‘It’s too soon to talk about a new bike,’ he said.
His helmet-cam footage regularly sparks viral debates — sometimes over the driver’s actions, other times over his own, such as whether he should be wearing hi-vis gear at night.
The TV show host’s comments follow controversy on his Channel 5, which show sparked outrage when a guest claimed, ‘Incels aren’t the problem, women are’, and insisted that female behaviour ‘gets worse and worse as time goes on’ during an explosive misogyny debate.
During the programme, Jeremy, Reem Ibrahim and Matthew Torbitt had a conversation with Adam, from Devon, who phoned in.
‘What do you know of incels Adam?’ Jeremy asked.
The guest replied: ‘Most of the time I think it’s just men trying to express themselves and being labelled misogynist because of programmes such as the one now.’
He went on to add that he believes ‘if you want to address the issue of incels, if there is such an issue of incels and it’s not just a label which has been given to a certain group of men, then you need to look at the larger social structures that are causing it’.
