[Closed] Time for a brew, Guy Martin's back

Nice one cheers, im sure it'll be reet good.

book mark set 🙂

He's bought an MX track.

Thanks for the tip, box set to record, I’ll make sure I’ve got a mug of tea to hand.

Thanks !!!

He’s bought an MX track.

https://twitter.com/guymartinracing/status/421239183882321920?s=20

That’s not all the mad bugger’s been up to!
https://uk.motor1.com/news/549011/guy-martin-record-landspeed-test/

That MX track is ace,I love circuits built using hills.
Would love to travel down and watch some racing there,or even a big practise day.

Just watched the Our Guy in Chernobyl.

Fascinating stuff. And he’s as mad as a box of frogs.

Folk racing looks mega fun.

Enjoyed that. Off to Sweden next week and we’re being taken to see a game of Bandy (some kind of variation on ice hockey). I wish we were going to see folk racing instead! 😀

As much as I enjoyed the program, typical lack of attention to detail in him not finding out about the requirement to harden the front of the car or the fact you can properly modify the engine to make you competitive. 🙄

If he'd done the latter, he would have had a good chance at making the final.

Makes a change from "celebrities" in camper vans.

Do we really believe he drove to Sweden twice? Or was it really drive there with van, car and trailer. Park up the trailer and film him having a go and driving about a bit. Then hook up again and film him "returning" with the car?

Folk racing looks mega fun.

I think that must surely have been everyone’s reaction. It looks like a right laugh

As much as I enjoyed the program, typical lack of attention to detail in him not finding out about the requirement to harden the front of the car or the fact you can properly modify the engine to make you competitive. 🙄

Or as we commonly refer to it… being a bloke

No, I won’t be needing to read the instructions, just hold my pint and pass me that hammer 😃

Or as we commonly refer to it… being a bloke

It's a strong counterpoint to be fair. 😁

I'd imagine a boat from Hull to Norway then across to Sweden is easy enough...

He does love a road trip

Top bloke.

Noticed he was driving an MAN van. He was a Transit lover for years.
Maybe fed up with the rust

It was pretty good apart from now my other half has now Seen Quadrophenia*. We have a 245, see.

* It's a thing in our house if that when you watch a program on the telly and you then want to do that thing you are said to have Seen Quadrophenia, ie you see that film and you then think that owning a scooter is a good idea. See also: Bob Ross (buy paints, make a mess), slopestyle (buy tiny bike), downhill (buy FS frame) etc...

He was on the Chasin the racin podcast the other week.It's a good listen.

Does anyone else find him quite annoying?

I don't mean he is a dick or anything, his interest and enthusiasm is great but I could do without all the "have a brew chat". He's like a Fred Dibnah* with ADHD

*Who really was a chauvinistic prick.

Did anyone else notice that through the episode his hair changed from being long and bushy to cropped very short, and then back to bushy again. It was a continuity nightmare.
I can imagine the production team turning up in the morning in Grimsby for another days filming to find he's had the clippers out, and them thinking "Christ, how are we going to edit this appropriately?"
That's part of his charm though, he doesn't give a stuff about the details of telly-programme making.
I also thought the bloke who sold the 240 estate, and was sentimentally attached to it, would've been horrified if he'd known what was around the corner for his cherished two tons of Swedishness!

Edit - I did like the large Merlin image in his garage.

Does anyone else find him quite annoying?

i dont find it annoying, its just him i think.
I'll fully admit to being a Guy Martin fanboy having followed him back in the TT racing days.

Ive also read his books which gives a good insight as to him as a person.

I get how you would find him annoying, however i like the fact thats he just gets on with stuff in typical "it'll be reet" fashion.

Not bothered by the continuity of the hair either, as i don't need to believe this was all filmed on the same day or in the sequence they portray it to be.

I also thought the bloke who sold the 240 estate, and was sentimentally attached to it,

I assumed that the sentimental bit was just to drive up the price. I also assumed that Guy Martin is a useless haggler when he paid that amount for a total wreck, considering he should have known what he was buying? And finally I assumed that it was all done just for the TV and the seller actually got paid the £100 that the car is actually worth in 2021. But then I googled the cost of a used 240 estate. 😀

Does anyone else find him quite annoying?

I expect quite a few people do, but then they don't bother watching his programmes. He's not in the media much, so quite easy to ignore if you don't like him........

lack of attention to detail

The theme continues this week.

Let's just build half of it, then wheelie it into a DNF.

joshvegas
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Does anyone else find him quite annoying?

I do but I'm truth it makes me more annoyed at myself as I don't really know why I don't like him! He seems a decent enough bloke and passionate about what what he does but I can't help but feel a little irritated by him. It's totally daft on my part.

That said,I enjoyed tonight's episode, just a shame about the anti climax.

joshvegas
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Does anyone else find him quite annoying?

I don’t mean he is a dick or anything, his interest and enthusiasm is great but I could do without all the “have a brew chat”. He’s like a Fred Dibnah* with ADHD

TBH you can never tell with Guy Martin what's genuine and what's intentionally built. Like, "by eck" is something he started saying so he'd not swear all the time on camera. But now it's probably genuine.

I think it goes pretty deep- his connection with reality seems a little loose, things get mythologised and then he believes the myth but, the thing is, he seems to really believe the myth. If it was bullshitting I'd hate it but it really seems like he's telling it like he thinks it is

(example- he came and did the no fuss endurance dh, and ended up pulling out after a couple of hours as he'd been plagued with punctures- spoke to him at the time and he'd just gone "I can't do well now so I'm dropping out". Fair enough- I slogged on to the end for 39th, he didn't want to be a slogger-on-for-mid-pack. But a bit later he was interviewed and he said he'd pulled out because of injury. And then he went to Macau GP and did badly and mentioned this mountain biking injury he'd got at the race. There was never an injury of course, but by the time he was at Macau I'm pretty sure he believed it himself. Or some other episode had got blurred into it.)

It's a pretty fine difference between yarning and bullshitting but I reckon it matters.

He seems like a good bloke who genuinely loves what he does but the habit of saying things twice  drives me mad.

He seems like a good bloke who genuinely loves what he does but the habit of saying things twice  drives me mad.

That was a strange juxtaposition of telly last night, 1 hour of Guy Martin followed by an hour of Grayson Perry!

The reduced width of his Ape was meant to make it more agile, according to the commentary, despite the fact that none of them looked like they lacked agility. It just happened that the width was almost exactly the right size to fit in the back of the van, and any bigger would have made it more difficult to transport..

. It just happened that the width was almost exactly the right size to fit in the back of the van, and any bigger would have made it more difficult to transport..

Exactly what crossed my mind as I watched it, including that front wheel/axle looks like it won't take many wheelies/much off road.
Looked hilarious fun though.

How much did the owner of the Italian Ape he was forced to use charge the production company to save the program? Reality TV is not real.

I wondered if part of the taking the engine and axle out thing was because it wouldn't fit between the arches of the MAN van (which is narrower than the Relay / Ducato / Boxer it came in.

And again it looked like it was one visit to Italy staged to look like two. Right down to the continuity bobble hat on a sunny day to cover the long hair 🙂 I don't blame them as Brexit & C19 must make it a nightmare working abroad and shipping stuff.

That's all makes sense, build it in the UK with the benefit of a few internet photo's and translated phone calls, then get to Italy and the first time you've seen one in the flesh...

"Oh, it should be longer and mid engine'd! And the front suspension is much beefier. We'll have to try and explain this one away!"

Next week's racing Land Rover is a bit less niche, maybe that'll be more successful!

And again it looked like it was one visit to Italy staged to look like two. Right down to the continuity bobble hat on a sunny day to cover the long hair 🙂 I don’t blame them as Brexit & C19 must make it a nightmare working abroad and shipping stuff.

Yeah, makes sense but that's the stuff that annoys me though - the lack of honesty about the process in an attempt to ratchet up the tension. Why not just admit that he'd not been in the first place and had only spoken to the people by Skype, or whatever, and received the rulebook in an email. That then explains why he keeps turning up with vaguely wrong machines, rather than just making him look like a fool. But, TV and all that...

Watched the Ape episode tonight. My Italian isn't too good but I think one of the Italian guys said "why the **** did I bother sending you all the photos and drawings on how to make it you ****ing grease monkey"

Incredibly tedious - 55 mins of him wittering on and 5 mins of actual Ape racing.

Seems to be a lot of people are looking too deeply into this.
TV is not real life, things are staged to look better, get a better reaction, create more drama for a broad range of viewers.

Personally i like him, and i'll watch anything hes involved in as i like the fact hes not a run of the mill TV presenter whos trying a bit too hard.
Granted hes nuts as a box of frogs and not really on this planet, but thats what i like about him.

For some reason I can't stream this on the TV app but I can on my laptop.

Seems to be a lot of people are looking too deeply into this.
TV is not real life, things are staged to look better, get a better reaction, create more drama for a broad range of viewers.

Couldn’t give a stuff about “drama”, personally more interested in seeing details about the spannering and technical stuff.

Completely agree, if i were in charge i would make it so that you see them actually building it rather then wheeling it out of a garage after a few arty shots with a spanner, however given the amount of gash (See your examples above) actually on TV these days i'll take what i can get.

I still find it enjoyable and its an easy watch.

Yeah, me too.

The Repair Shop is going the same way, far too much focus on the back story and not enough of then actually fixing things. I'm tempted to apply with the most way out fabricated family history, them present them with a melted washing up bowl or something.