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as above 🙂
Zooming in on Tea Bags, mugs of tea, lots of 'proper job' and pan out from grease filled finger nails. There's that's 90% of it taken care of sorry for the spoilers.
Cheers, nearly missed it!
surely he's done his underwater safety training before getting in an F1 boat?
Cheers, nearly missed this.
Will have to watch the 2nd half on catch up or record #Sherlock
Thank you. I was gutted I missed last nights...
I even love the narration on this prog! Its the nutter probation officer from Misfits, gives me a chuckle just hearing his voice 🙂
I think Guy needs to talk to Travis...
I think Guy needs to talk to Travis...
Twice...
good spot, got Ch4+1 lined up to catch it from the start. Hopefully more like ep1 of his series, less like James May's Yawn Stories 🙂
The mrs is gutted, that powerboat section was only filmed down the road, she'd have had him round if she'd have know he was so close.
Friend of mine was at the glider club in Lee on Solent where they filmed one of the programmes. He drank a good few cups of tea with Guy aparrently...
I like how the cost of the measuring equipment is always given as a sign of expensive = good.
No scientists, no calculations, not floatating shit.
Paddle tyre and flat out balls to the wall shit. 😀
Watching it now, the powerboat is nuts, I used to watch those idiots racing around Bristol harbour!
Love the scales, freebie trumps expensive gizmo!
More importantly, what conveyor belt for next weeks episode?
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That was properly mad!
That was proper mad, only thought I have is, if the ski had have been wider and a bit flatter it may have planed easier/further. Just a thought coming from a long boarder background.
Still mental tho
It did seem a bit odd that the record allowed you to fit skis etc to your bike? Surely, it should just be a std bike? (allow a paddle tyre that's it) Other wise, whats to stop you just making effectively a jet ski?
It's not allowed to float when stopped.
well drill a couple of holes in the jetski then!
I watched worried that the ski on the bottom of the bike looked a bit too much like a big one of these.
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Not the sort of thing that you want a high speed interface with.
well drill a couple of holes in the jetski then!
Has to be powered by the driving wheel of the motorbike. Not a jet of water.
Aye, great stuff, grand, loved it, can't wait for next weeks.
Only seen the start, but pretty disappointed about being able to glue a ski onto the bottom of the frame rails. 🙁
Only seen the start, but pretty disappointed about being able to glue a ski onto the bottom of the frame rails
No different to using a specific front/rear tyre IMO, its not like it affected the bikes ability to function as a bike.
Them's the rules, they stuck to them.
Didn't enjoy it as much as the last episode (which was excellent), mainly because Mythbusters did a very similar thing last year. Not sure how far they went, but it was pretty far, and without a paddle tyre!
Really surprised he wasn't wearing a buoyancy aid, he was hitting the water pretty hard!
Guy is nuts.......but Travis is just bat shit crazy balls...
Nitro Circus have been hydroplaning for a while too. Without a ski, or paddle tyre.
Possibly with more success too...
Edit, too slow. Again.
Nitro Circus use the 'grande cajones' branch of science. the bigger your balls are, the higher/faster/stronger/longer you go.
I did like the way the developers of the hydrofoil just said "there's too much going on here to work out how/if it will work" better just give it a go.
What I didn't understand is why they didn't trial it more in shallower water where the bike doesn't sink down to 30 metres (maybe they did but it wasn't shown). Surely this is more about technique than anything else?
I imagine he's had a lot of these things to do over the past year and just didn't have time.
What I didn't understand is why they didn't trial it more in shallower water where the bike doesn't sink down to 30 metres (maybe they did but it wasn't shown)
They did - in the dug out bit long before they went on-site - it was in the programme.
yeah, but they did it like three times and it was over 10 metres and he only got it right once. They should have done it in an Olympic swimming pool.
Why didn't the bike have some sort of transmitter on it? I thought a float on a bit of rope was a bit low-tech.
Well yeah, I assumed they had more than three attempts but didn't show them all - it would have been a bit boring... 😉
Why didn't the bike have some sort of transmitter on it? I thought a float on a bit of rope was a bit low-tech
i did think even a decent strobe light would have helped things. And whether leathers were the best choice of safety kit.
He's got a Rourke Fixie then?
Dunno... but he has got one of [url= http://www.cliosport.net/forum/showthread.php?669730-Guy-Martin-s-new-toy-Volvo-content ]these.[/url]
I've been in it that lake and can confirm it is freeeeeeezing (if you are fully clothed and it is January) so don't blame him not going in loads of times...
Why did they not also put some small foils on the forks to stop it diving
rules said they are allowed for safety reasons
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Why didn't the bike have some sort of transmitter on it? I thought a float on a bit of rope was a bit low-tech.
The transmitter wouldn't have helped, they knew roughly where the bike was, which is all a transmitter would have done, and that water was very murky, even a strobe probably wouldn't have shown up more than a meter or so away; their torches were very bright, and only picked it out around that distance.
The buoy was the obvious choice, and it worked second time, it was only fouling on the marker caused it to come off.
I always enjoy watching Guy Martin 😉
Dunno... but he has got one of these.
On the Holcombe ride last month he mentioned the Volvo had some internal engine snappage 🙁
I was looking for stuff on the Hope website the other day and they showed the Rourke on display in reception (complete with rusty drivetrain).
http://www.hopetech.com/page.aspx?itemID=SPG563
bump, cos its that time again. except episode 3 tonight 🙂
Bumps again, as it's now on.
on-one merino top FTW
Brant will be pleased
I'm wearing mine as well. Feel like im part of the team.
Really? 80 miles a day cycle commute? That's more miles a year than I do in my car. It would also mean approx 5-6 hrs a day on the bike...
remember it's the telly they fib a bit
no tea yet... drac will be gutted.... 😉
Probably uses his motorbike 😉
Glider looked fun 😀
Hands up who wants to go flying in a glider with that bloke. 😀
He lives in rural Lincolnshire, shouldn't be too difficult to average 20mph in that area as opposed to stop/start urban commuting.
I reckon 4 hours a day on the bike, 2 hours there and 2 hours back in the evening.
5-6 hours? You're judging him by podgy STW standards!
he said 40 didn't he??? 20 each way so t too bad??
80 miles a day cycle commute?
I thought he meant 40 miles there & back, meaning 20 each way.
That's still 200 miles a week though if he works 5 days
Typical MTB-roadie wearing baggies on the road bike. Surprised he didn't have a camelback on too.
This may be an odd question but what is he commuting to? I thought he was a professional motorcyclist.
He's a truck mechanic by trade. How much truck mechanicing he does these days is anyone's guess.
truck mechanic by trade as far as I remember.
He is a truck mechanic. The motorbike stuff is more a sideline for him
Truck mechanic by trade, it's almost as if no one else knows this 😉
Is he a truck mechanic?!
Nah. Traffic warden.
he likes to point out that he's only a 'truck mechanic' but he must get more time off for racing motorbikes, making tv programs, racing mountain bikes, promoting tyco suzuki, guy martin racing etc. You'd he think he was the bosses son or something 🙄
[Wants to see Tony Martin in same thingy.]
Why aren't they using a recumbent stylee?
He probably has more than the usual 28 days holiday allowance.
Probably earns more as well..
They said forty miles there, and back, each day, so I take that to be an 80 mile commute.
Guy's pretty handy flying that glider!
Edit] and I don't mind admitting that if I'd been sitting where a Guy was during that low-level run, I'd have been crapping myself!
Could it have been 'fourty miles, there and back, each day'?
How many bikes has he got? Saw him on 3 or 4 different ones tonight alone!
I'm enjoying the series so far, but the engineering/science, though seemingly high tech at the outset, has kind of ended up with some sort of compromise, or dare I say it a bodge, which coupled with apparently running out of time ends up with them finishing on a bit of a happy whimper rather than a triumph.
Maybe budget restrictions?
I couldn't help thinking that basing their plane (hpa) around a standard road bike could be at the cost of efficiency & aerodynamics??? (but I'm probably way out).......
I thought Guy now lived oop Naarth? Trying to find people with his accent maybe (see other Guy Martin threads).
Does it matter how far his commute is?
I'm enjoying the series so far, but the engineering/science, though seemingly high tech at the outset, has kind of ended up with some sort of compromise, or dare I say it a bodge, which coupled with apparently running out of time ends up with them finishing on a bit of a happy whimper rather than a triumph.
What was the compromise, or bodge? They had the issue with the wing, for sure, but the main issue was with the 10mph headwind, and they still got the fastest flight of the meeting, against highly experienced teams, and using a completely new type of construction.
Seems pretty triumphant to me.
Perhaps I'm being harsh, I've just felt after the first 3 - "what if?"
I know what you mean, seems like after spending 6 months making something you might try and fly it on more than one day.
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He lives in rural Lincolnshire, shouldn't be too difficult to average 20mph in that area as opposed to stop/start urban commuting.
my commute in rural lincolnshire is 20 miles and its easy in an hour, theres only 2 hills, one in kirton lindsey and one in Scampton
How many bikes has he got? Saw him on 3 or 4 different ones tonight alone!I'm enjoying the series so far, but the engineering/science, though seemingly high tech at the outset, has kind of ended up with some sort of compromise, or dare I say it a bodge, which coupled with apparently running out of time ends up with them finishing on a bit of a happy whimper rather than a triumph.
part of its appeal, homage to the backstreet/shed inventor tradition in the UK? Really enjoyed this series; could do without the overly melodramatic music and post-advert re-caps, but its a bit of science, a bit of engineering, a bit of bodge and have-a-go spirit and enough of a positive feel-good ending even if no official records (the water one wasnt sanctioned by Guinness).
Should be compulsory viewing for pre-GCSE schooling, maybe encourage a few more people to look at science and engineering.
He keeps riding an Orange CarbO and from his helmet stickers is sponsored by Orange and Hope, he had a fixie built by Rourke who built the speed bike in his van, but I noticed on the road-training clips he was on a Specialized with a power meter. And borrowed a track bike built for someone 6'8"...
Typical MTB-roadie wearing baggies on the road bike.
Hope-branded, his sponsors?