Guy Martin

[Richard A Thackeray]

Guys co-pedallers blog-page

http://jasonmilesracing.com/


The records; (standing start, multiple rider) 12 & 24 hours

http://www.whpva.org/land.html#372

 

[Mattonsea]

Could of washed his road bike tonight !!!

 

[0lonerider]

have to watch later!watchin community channel 63 life of the bicycle

 

[Berties]

The man is a legend,just watched him ,humbled by seb loeb,and best in his class up
Pikes peak,kept me interested all the way through

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Could of washed his road bike tonight !!!

And being able to talk after the Shelsey Walsh single-seater drive..............

 

[Deleted member 26715]

[QUOTE 3350317, member: 259"]I will record it and put it in a torrentable format on thursday but I've never created a bit torrent file so expect delays!

Have you looked into region unblocking for C4 on demand?[/QUOTE]
It's already out there, search for Guy Martin Need for Speed S02E01

Alan..

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Another excellent program, I wonder what time he would have set if they'd got the bike properly sorted?

 

[DiddlyDodds]

They kept saying how dangerous it was with the drop offs, but it looked like a walk in park for him compared to going through villages on the Isle Of Man TT at getting on for 200mph with houses and lamp posts either side

Pity his fire breathing monster wasn't running to its best as he would have mullered several more classes up there, and i wonder if he already has next year in mind.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Ultimately though I thought it was not comparable to the Americans at all.

If you think that the American effort was good, how about the British pair that only missed the record by 4 miles due to illness, I suspect but do not know that the American would have had far more support than the Father & Son British effort, it just seems to be the way.

Alan...

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

They kept saying how dangerous it was with the drop offs, but it looked like a walk in park for him compared to going through villages on the Isle Of Man TT at getting on for 200mph with houses and lamp posts either side

Either way, even a mistake would be fatal

The main difference would be, that on the Isle of Man, they'd get to him a lot quicker
Pikes Peak would mean a long clamber down the side

Pity his fire breathing monster wasn't running to its best as he would have mullered several more classes up there, and i wonder if he already has next year in mind.

That would not be surprising............

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

[QUOTE 3360482, member: 9609"]Possibilities of parachute deployment on some parts of pike peak![/QUOTE]
True!!
So long as the pack wasn't ripped to shreds, by the road-surface & surrounding rocks first....

 

[Deleted member 1258]

They kept saying how dangerous it was with the drop offs, but it looked like a walk in park for him compared to going through villages on the Isle Of Man TT at getting on for 200mph with houses and lamp posts either side

Pity his fire breathing monster wasn't running to its best as he would have mullered several more classes up there, and i wonder if he already has next year in mind.

I did wonder if it was a blessing in disguise that the bike wasn't at 100%, would it have been over powered and too much of a handful if it had been 100%?

 

[Trickedem]

I loved the welding! A thing of beauty.

 

[raleighnut]

I did wonder if it was a blessing in disguise that the bike wasn't at 100%, would it have been over powered and too much of a handful if it had been 100%?

It was a fuel supply problem (not coming out of the tank quickly enough) that just stopped him using full throttle so only hurt straight line acceleration. More dangerous and more likely to cause him to crash if he'd tried to enter a corner too fast in order to carry more speed through the bend cos he couldn't fire it out.

 

[Panter]

I did wonder if it was a blessing in disguise that the bike wasn't at 100%, would it have been over powered and too much of a handful if it had been 100%?

I honestly don't think so, he's a very skillful rider.
Shame they didn't give any details of the turbo and fueling, but I imagine it was set up to run at low pressure and just give some assistance as the air thinned.