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Tonight at 8pm on Channel 4, Speed with Guy Martin, Epiosde 2 - Pikes Peak.

Guy visits the USA, where he hopes to win at one of America's oldest races: the Pike's Peak International Hill Climb.

In this annual contest, known as The Race to the Clouds, riders compete against the clock on a gruelling mountainside track that finishes over 4000 metres above sea level.

To learn the unique skills required in hill climb racing, Guy heads to the birthplace of the sport: Shelsley Walsh hill climb in Worcestershire. Racing up the course in an F1-style car, he realises that sheer horsepower and driving precision are vital.

However, in the thin air of Pike's Peak, Guy's body and bike will be desperately short of oxygen, which could seriously affect his performance. As well as trying to add more power to his homemade bike, Guy takes a high-altitude fitness test in a hypoxic chamber.

He soon realises how much harder his body will have to work and how the high altitude will affect his brain and cognitive performance; crucial when he has to remember the 150-plus bends in the road and avoid driving over a cliff!

After six months' preparation and a two-day road trip across America, Guy's success depends not just on how well he's tuned his bike and body, but on his own abilities as a racer.

Not sure which bike he will be riding but from this Photo looks like it could be his own Martek framed GSX-R 1100 turbo

Really looking forward to this one, but I suspect that if he'd been successful we'd have heard the news before now.?
Didn't I read somewhere that an electric bike had become the latest winner, or is that my old mind playing tricks on me again.? It does make sense in respect of it being immune to the issues that combustion engines will presumably contend with, due to the change in elevation.




Iirc Pikes Peak is the race that D41 has spent years telling us he was going to compete in one day.

The result was in the news earlier in the year but I won't spoil it. There are a number of different classes run at Pikes Peak.

I was looking forward to watching this one, well being a hill climber myself (LOL) great watch enjoyed that. Would love to give that a go.

Had to laugh at his no nonsense chat up while he was in town showing the bike off... ha ha.

Enjoyed it too Frankie and would love to go and watch it but only at a safe distance, some of the crashes were very spectacular and nearly taking the crowd out.

Frankie wrote:Had to laugh at his no nonsense chat up while he was in town showing the bike off... ha ha.

Was watching this with Mini Gee, he was utterly gobsmacked at how he did that, lesson stored away for future use I think.

Was a great prog and as above I won't spoil it for others by giving too much away, suffice to say I was wondering if they'd edited a dyno and mapping scene out in the UK, only to find out they quite obviously hadn't.

Couldn't have put it better tbh!

Damn missed this. Will have to look for a repeat. Glad none of you did any spoilers.

It should be on 4OD

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D6 wrote:Damn missed this. Will have to look for a repeat. Glad none of you did any spoilers.

repeated on saturdays C4.

cheers fellas. found it on 4oD as KWacky said. Downloading now.

Guys a real legend,he has many haters but I think he's the real deal
Great programme

Just watched it and enjoyed it. I enjoy watching him too.

Made me laugh when he asked that bird out