About this episode

Guy Martin discusses his adventures in motorcycle racing, cycling, and his experiences with danger and travel.

This week, James is joined by Guy Martin, former British motorcycle racer, land speed record setter, part-time cyclist and reluctant TV presenter - he says he’d rather be known for his day job fixing trucks than as a TV personality. But on the box he is, where you may have seen him building his own narrowboat from archaic methods (think smelting your own iron), breaking tractor land speed records (spoiler, 135mph), rebuilding First World War tanks and travelling the globe in the Our Guy in … series, where Guy visits the Chernobyl reactor in Ukraine, cycles across the desert in China, travels through India on a motorcycle and much more - we haven't even got to the drug cartels in Colombia yet. Guy is also a keen cyclist, from enduro-mountain biking to breaking the British land speed record on a special steel road bike, to his own self-styled ultra-cycling challenges, although he’d just call them ‘long rides to get me head straight’. And he’s also an author, his new book All the Medals Have Been Handed Out is out on 7th May, which along with charting his adventures and misadventures on two wheels, recounts being kidnapped in Colombia and waterboarded; his soul-crushing…

People in this episode

Host: James

Guest: Guy Martin

Topics covered

• motorcycle racing
• land speed records
• cycling
• adventure travel
• personal stories

Keywords

• Guy Martin
• land speed record
• motorcycle
• cycling
• adventure
• Colombia
• Azerbaijan
• Chernobyl
• book

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cyclist Magazine

Books & works: All the Medals Have Been Handed Out

Places: Colombia, Azerbaijan, Chernobyl, China, India, Ukraine

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