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Something about the land speed cycling record tonight at 8. That's in 30 minutes time folks.
I was at South Lakes Animal Park today and noticed a striking resemblance between Guy Martin and an emu.
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Sky+ set. Watching Downton Shitting Abbey first. 😕
It is going to be a graft watching, eh lad?
Brilliant cheers. Forgot about it
Aye chief, brew is made as well.
Morrisons branches north of Birmingham sold out of tissues earlier today.
All you need is a sock. Tissues?? Posh bugger!!!
I did a lot of work to the truck of Dave Jenkins which Guy uses in this episode. It got rather bent after a crash at Oulton Park
Only watching this for Amy Williams
And GM seems like a top bloke 🙂
Only watching this for Amy Williams
Not Laura Trott then ?
Not my type really I guess
speed wobble at 100mph must be a pants filling experience!
On a beach?
Blokes got some balls!
Just about the best hour of telly I've seen in a long time. Cracking effort!
'Not bad for a bunch of idiots in a shed'
I thought Brant and co had that copyrighted?
Mental. Utterly bloody mental! I've done 70mph along Pendine in a 1300 Morris Minor, flat out, and that was getting damned twitchy on the sand. Over 100mph on a bicycle? Blokes got some balls? Yeah, like these:
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Very entertaining as he always is ........ Just can't quite figure why they didn't stick to Tarmac and a loooong runway ?
Yeah, he got to 100mph on a 2 mile runway, but I guess the extra 10-20mph must have required double that. Beach is not a cool place to try and go fast.
Thought provoking effort that, I wonder what he would be able to do if he rode it on Tarmac...
Crackers
The question I wanted to have answered was why not a banked oval for the attempt? I know Pendine Sands has a lot of history for speed records, but was that really the only place they could use?
Surely he needed a fat bike for riding on sand?!
Did he not say the run was 3 miles? Not many flat 3 mile stretches of tarmac in the UK.
crash on sand or crash on tarmac.... 😀
112.9 mph ! ... on sand ! ... on a push bike ! ... EEEEKKKKKKKK !!!!!!!!
how you get balls that big into leathers I shall never know 🙂
Hope he set it as a strava segment.
Is there a "flatness" requirement for the record? Most UK runways have a significant slope, especially the very long ones! (Brunters, where they ran the first test is very slopey indeed)
(being a beach, and at "sealevel" the sands are flat by natures hand!)
Was it coincidence it was on the same night as the national derny champs 🙂
Just saw it on 4OD - definitely entertaining though a few cringeworthy moments. I was surprised Dave LeGrys didn't say 'give us a go then' after he'd finished...
There's good reason Guy has never been invited on Just a Minute.
Just saw it on 4OD - definitely entertaining though a few cringeworthy moments. I was surprised Dave LeGrys didn't say 'give us a go then' after he'd finished...
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Dave Jenkins' garage is round the corner from me. If I've seen him using a mobile whilst driving an HGV once, I've seen it several dozen times. The best was whilst driving a Transit through the town, yakking on the phone, and sitting about a foot off a cyclist's rear wheel, weaving and beeping his horn to get past, and eventually bullying him off the road.
Total c-unit.
Physically, many people could do vastly better than Martin's effort. Mentally, having the bottle to do it, is another question. Having the media profile to raise the cash to do it narrows the field further. I'd like to see Legro not only try to take it back but go for the world record.
I agree, thrown off a superbike on your leathers is gonna be quite a different experience to being clipped in on road pedals, on the racing you see them throw/guide themselves in a different direction to the motorbike, that isn't going to happen when you are clipped in.
You'd be unclipped pretty quickly at 100 mph
Still trying to get my head around the science of this whole thing. Just seems mad that you can pedal a push bike to over 100mph. So, if I've got this right;
- he's pulled to 65mph by the truck.
- once released from the truck he's got to accelerate an additional 35mph to get over 100 and then beyond.
- so in actual fact with regards to the effort involved, it should be no harder than getting a time trial bike or equally large geared bike up to 35mph from a standing start?
Obviously the immense speed brings it's own challenges etc, but essentially if you've got nuts big enough it should be possible for an average cyclist to achieve a similar speed. Or am I oversimplifying this?!
I sort of agree. Take away air resistance, gear it up and with the gyroscopic effect at that speed Im not so sure its that difficult.
What am I missing ?
I wonder what tyres to use for sand at 100mph ?
Chain to the wheel is going to be zipping along at a fair speed more than usual, tension/alignment I guess are going to be critical.
I thought that was a great program.
Is Guy Martin, Brain Cox's long lost (thicker) brother or what?
Seems like a really nice guy with massive balls.
I was gob-smacked when they said they were doing it on the beach. As above, on tarmac it would be way faster. Surely they can find a very quiet motorway and close off 3 or 4 miles for a couple of hours.
jkomo - MemberI wonder what tyres to use for sand at 100mph ?
Think the original set were Conti sport contact? but the wider ones at Pendine didn't look like Conti's
all the tyres were from conti the fatter ones used were were a touring tyre, as tweeted by conti last night and this morning, no chance of using a motorway imagine the cost involved to close the motorway for a speed record?
Just throw a coke can/crisp bag on the motorway, the Highways Agency will have it closed for hours while they cordon it all off and clear it up.
Flippancy aside I guess getting a motorway section long enough that's also within the required flatness in the UK could prove challenging.
One of the flattest / straightest / longest bits of tarmac is Ehra in Germany which is over 5 miles (plus a banked bend at each end if some extra space is needed). Amazing place, but I'd imagine that a private booking would be almost impossible to obtain (unless somebody in VW group like Bentley / Bugatti / Lambo etc was sponsoring the tow car). And I seem to remember it had crash barriers rather than any grass run off area....
I bet motorways are closed all the time with little expense. Even a dual carriageway. I suspect the reality is it's hard to find a flat one.
I was thinking of the M58 in Liverpool. You'll see 5 cars an hour at night but then I remembered it's rarely flat.
You'd want to go to Bonneville, or somewhere with long, straight flat roads - maybe australia....
Or some stupid liability/insurance thing as it's below high water ?
Russell96 - Member
I agree, thrown off a superbike on your leathers is gonna be quite a different experience to being clipped in on road pedals, on the racing you see them throw/guide themselves in a different direction to the motorbike, that isn't going to happen when you are clipped in.
GM crashed into a wall at 165mph while still on the bike at the IOMTT as per the picture earlier. Are you really suggesting that is 'safer' ???
Plenty of flat and (relatively - the beach appeared to curve slightly?) straight roads around here they could have closed. The A47 between Wisbech and Kings Lynn springs to mind straight away. A14 between Huntingdon and Cambridge also, but that might be tough to close.
I wasn't thinking of a TT, more a race track with slide off areas after all he wasn't doing the attempt in a 12ft wide lane it was on a wide open beach.
Spat off any bike unclipped is different to being thrown off one clipped in, magnify that by the speed, the time to getting out of the way is going to be reduced by a massive amount. Remaining clipped in to a bike at 100+ whilst it's bouncing all over the beach is going to be worse then thrown off on your own.
Great show with a great character - he's like a modern day Fred Dibnah (with bigger balls!)
Also great to see Hope & Orange get some air time
Quality show and I'm looking forward to the rest of the series