Anyone watch Speed With Guy Martin.....

Beasty

inc21 wrote: »

Any footage about Le Grys record attempt?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmpxJWAJbFM

inc21

Found that alright ^^^
Is there any backstory for him, same kind of way Guy had it. It would be interesting to watch and compare the two.

Beasty

The only "back" story is he broke his in a tandem crash at the 1978 Commonwealth Games which effectively finished his track career

He turned pro for a while then set up as a coach. However he made a return to track cycling with the World Masters winning numerous golds over the years. He remains a top track cycling coach

inc21

All edited now.
Story about his back, very interesting also unfortunate. Thanks Beasty

Captain Havoc

I assume they wanted to do the record in Great Britain and as NI isn't technically GB (it's United Kingdom). You'd like to think that they would be accommodated on a motorway at 3am.

inc21

Another 10km/h easily on smooth black stuff

Beasty

Captain Havoc wrote: »

I assume they wanted to do the record in Great Britain and as NI isn't technically GB (it's United Kingdom). You'd like to think that they would be accommodated on a motorway at 3am.

Don't think I've ever heard of a motorway being closed in GB for a sporting event - may even need a special act of Parliament. Even then the motoring lobby would be up in arms about it. Virtually all GB motorways have traffic (particlarly articulated trucks making deliveries) through the night - closing them for repairs/upgrades is difficult enough

Scrappy600

Befor I started cycling I raced supersports 600's in Mondello and have followed Guy for a long long time. He's a brilliant character and is extremely entertaining to watch. Rest of the series should be very good if last nights episode is anything to go by.

couerdelion

Beasty wrote: »

Don't think I've ever heard of a motorway being closed in GB for a sporting event

London marathon?

Edit: Ah that's not on motorways...

Beasty

couerdelion wrote: »

London marathon?

Edit: Ah that's not on motorways...

Actually I think they do close a short section of inner-city motorway in Newcastle for the Great North Run

RossieMan

ah balls. Anyone know when its being repeated?

i cant steam things, at all, stupid 1mb connection

detones

Just watched this and it was entertaining alright. However as a physical feat I'd really wonder how impressive this was. Guys own test results as an athlete were average. I suppose the impressive part would be the balls it takes to do this. However I'd summise that most Amateur racing cyclist could physically do this if they were brave/mad enough.

Vizzy

detones wrote: »

Just watched this and it was entertaining alright. However as a physical feat I'd really wonder how impressive this was. Guys own test results as an athlete were average. I suppose the impressive part would be the balls it takes to do this. However I'd summise that most Amateur racing cyclist could physically do this if they were brave/mad enough.

I wonder though ?
Guy Martin would have a fairly high level of latent fitness anyway.
I'd say that the real key to this is his natural bike handling(from the motorbikes) and most importantly his complete lack of fear.
Sure a good amateur cyclist would give it a go but you could say the same about downhill racing.
Sure how hard is it to just sit up on a bike and let it go down the side of a mountain?:D

Mint Sauce

Vizzy wrote: »

I wonder though ?
Guy Martin would have a fairly high level of latent fitness anyway.
I'd say that the real key to this is his natural bike handling(from the motorbikes) and most importantly his complete lack of fear.
Sure a good amateur cyclist would give it a go but you could say the same about downhill racing.
Sure how hard is it to just sit up on a bike and let it go down the side of a mountain?:D

I thought it was better to crouch down right over the cross bar.



Although the speed wobble at just under 80km was enough for me to add a little extra pressure to the brakes.

afatbollix

Im involved in organising rallys in the UK. They can close a road for events like the London surrey bike ride and the Tour of Britian but the traffic laws stay in place. So speed limits still apply.

They can close roads in Scotland as they run a rally up there on public roads.

A funny story is that Wales rally GB ran a 200 metre section of road in 2008 and a tick arse of a cop sat at the end with a speed gun. He caught all the top guys at about 90MPH. They all landed for the event in 2009 and most were hauled into court and banned for a year but thankfully he did it inclusive of when they did it so were able to take part in the event.


The roads in the UK are alot more busy than the Republic. No chance of closing a motorway these days.

detones

Vizzy wrote: »

I wonder though ?
Guy Martin would have a fairly high level of latent fitness anyway.
I'd say that the real key to this is his natural bike handling(from the motorbikes) and most importantly his complete lack of fear.
Sure a good amateur cyclist would give it a go but you could say the same about downhill racing.
Sure how hard is it to just sit up on a bike and let it go down the side of a mountain?:D

To be honest it all just seemed a bit easy. The edited show over an hour probably didn't help but it just seemed to happen without any real drama. Quick bit of training on a turbo hop on the tarmac for a test and he already hits over 100. Then for the actual run on sand the same thing. There was no real sacrifice or hardship to achieve this, no big failures were he picked himself back up again. No real moments where he thought he'd never do it. I suppose the show gave us no real concept of time passes though.

Captain Havoc

detones wrote: »

To be honest it all just seemed a bit easy. The edited show over an hour probably didn't help but it just seemed to happen without any real drama. Quick bit of training on a turbo hop on the tarmac for a test and he already hits over 100. Then for the actual run on sand the same thing. There was no real sacrifice or hardship to achieve this, no big failures were he picked himself back up again. No real moments where he thought he'd never do it. I suppose the show gave us no real concept of time passes though.

No, they briefly mentioned he had five months to prepare. I think the bit where he's told he has average fitness does make it seem like anyone could have a crack at it.

micar

4th episode of this on at the moment on C4.

Looking to break the world speed record for snow sledging down a mountain slope.

I;m finding it very interesting.

Beasty

Just about to watch it on C4+1

Dave Le Grys is up for taking his record back - problem is he thinks it will cost around £1 million. He would actually be targetting 200mph which would obliterate the World record. He's looking at sand flats in Australia as he reckons that's the fastest place in the world

He was going for the world record last time and said he did 135mph in practice (which would have got it at that time), but when it came to the official attempt it was wet. He couldn't go again as they opened the motorway the following day

Super Freak

Guy Martin

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