Guy Martin
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Guy Martin completes the Tour Divide mountain bike event! As Terry Smith (like we told you ages ago)
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Guy Martin completes the Tour Divide mountain bike event! As Terry Smith (like we told you ages ago). And here it is – Terry Smith (aka our favourite sideburned two-wheeled nut Guy Martin) has finished the gruelling mountain bike event in America. Guy has been out on the huge time trail across some of the…
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Want to see Guy Martin’s next SPEED record attempt? Here’s where it is and when. And it’s FREE to attend!
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Want to see Guy Martin’s next SPEED record attempt? Here’s where it is and when. And it’s FREE to attend! OK, so the Guy Martin stories are coming in thick and fast at the moment – and this one will cheer up all those Guy Martin fans who are missing their regular dose of the…
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Is Guy Martin racing under the alias Terry Smith? We’ve been told that he is. If that’s right then here’s how he’s going on the Tour Divide!
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Yesterday we asked the question: Where is Guy Martin? after the live tracking for the punishing Tour Divide mountain bike race through America showed no sign of the housewife’s favourite – well last night we were told that Guy IS competing in the event and he’s doing it under the fake name Terry Smith! Now,…
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So where is Guy Martin? Because he’s NOT showing on the live tracking system for the Tour Divide mountain bike event
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So where is Guy Martin? Because he’s NOT showing on the live tracking system for the Tour Divide mountain bike event in the USA. OK, so there’s probably a perfectly reasonable explanation for this – like his tracking unit has broken, or he’s already completed it but hasn’t shown up on the results or he’s…
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Buy a piece of Guy Martin’s Wall of Death – it means charity cash for Spinal Research
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Buy a piece of Guy Martin’s Wall of Death – it means charity cash for Spinal Research. Guy Martin’s people are now selling sections of the huge Wall of Death made for the Channel 4 Easter special. The company behind Guy’s produce have cut up the famous Wall-ramp into sections and branded them with…
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Details emerge for Guy Martin’s next set of TV challenges – boats and blimps
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We told you last week about one of the main challenges facing Guy Martin in the next SPEED with series on Channel 4 which will be aired later this year – and now there’s more information about what we can expect to see from the Lincolnshire-based sideburned chap. In what could prove to be his…
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Google patents ‘sticky bonnet’ solution for driverless cars hitting pedestrians (and bikers, we assume)
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Check out this new patent from Google (and no, we’re not making this up) for a semi-collapsing front end of a car that’s covered in super sticky glue. The idea is that when the firm’s driverless cars have an incident with pedestrians, wildlife, cyclists or motorcyclists (we assume) the front end of the car…
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Guy Martin’s new SPEED challenge – human-powered blimp across the channel…
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If you’re missing your Guy Martin fix then here’s a behind-the-scenes picture that should have you smiling. This shot was snapped during filming for the upcoming third series of SPEED with the Lincolnshire man. That’s Guy with his back to the camera in the standard bobble hat. The series will be shown later in the…
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Sheene’s Daytona lid sells for £15,625 at auction – Guy Martin’s Blade goes for £14,720
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Barry Sheene’s helmet – the smashed up one he fell in whilst testing at Daytona in 1975 – sold for £15,625 at the Bonhams auction at the weekend. Bearing Sheene’s iconic black and gold paintjob and featuring the the famous Donald Duck emblem the helmet was one used by Sheene across the 1974 and 1975…
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See Guy Martin’s Wall of Death bike in the flesh at Stafford this weekend!
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The Rob North framed 750cc BSA Triple machine on which Guy Martin set a new world speed record on a Wall of Death, live on Channel 4 over the Easter break, will be at the 36th Carole Nash International Classic MotorCycle Show this weekend. The road racing, mountain biking, lorry mechanic blasted around the specially-built 37…
