Guy Martin - Speed - How to make things go faster

[Mr2Mike]

GTIR said:

I wouldn't fancy owning that bike after!

I thought it was quite a good advert for Suzuki to be honest. It spent best part of two hours at the bottom of a 30m lake and it didn't appear to take an awful lot to get it going.

[scorcher]

Seemed to be a lot of time,experts and money thrown at this for a mediocre result, when he could of just done this instead with better results??................
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYB7DYWI4G8

[Rat_Fink_67]

scorcher said:

Seemed to be a lot of time,experts and money thrown at this for a mediocre result, when he could of just done this instead with better results??................

How is a new world record a "mediocre result"?

[scorcher]

Rat_Fink_67 said:

scorcher said:

Seemed to be a lot of time,experts and money thrown at this for a mediocre result, when he could of just done this instead with better results??................

How is a new world record a "mediocre result"?

The result wasn't what they were hoping for, and I believe it wasn't put in the record books as it had to be at least 100 metres travelled?

[crashley]

Is it only me that thinks he cheated a bit, having a plane fabricated to help the bike plane? I know it was technically allowed in the rules but still...

[bogie]

crashley said:

Is it only me that thinks he cheated a bit, having a plane fabricated to help the bike plane? I know it was technically allowed in the rules but still...

isnt that what motorsport is all about? interpreting the rules and trying to find an advantage you can make somewhere

[RumpleFugly]

Rat_Fink_67 said:

scorcher said:

Seemed to be a lot of time,experts and money thrown at this for a mediocre result, when he could of just done this instead with better results??................

How is a new world record a "mediocre result"?

I think it was a great achievement but must say that I'm not sure on the whole World Record thing. As above Mythbusters went almost 100m on a lightly modified bike with no hydrofoil or sand tyres.

[Mr2Mike]

Bloody hell there are some miserable tts on here

bogie said:

isnt that what motorsport is all about? interpreting the rules and trying to find an advantage you can make somewhere

In this case there wasn't even any ambiguity in the rules, they stuck to the letter of them.

[srob]

Mr2Mike said:

Bloody hell there are some miserable tts on here

bogie said:

isnt that what motorsport is all about? interpreting the rules and trying to find an advantage you can make somewhere

In this case there wasn't even any ambiguity in the rules, they stuck to the letter of them.

There is indeed. Do you remember the landspeed record thread on here a while back?!

[bogie]

Yeah, im not criticizing, I thought it was great fun TV and fair play for Guy to have a crack at it. Sure is a lot more interesting than Top Gear these days

[Mr2Mike]

srob said:

There is indeed. Do you remember the landspeed record thread on here a while back?!

No I don't think I read that. Was it relevant to Guys hydroplane attempt?

The rules explicitly allowed the fitting of planes, and they fitted one. I don't really see how that can be considered cheating. The bike clearly wasn't capable of hydroplaning without it.

[srob]

Mr2Mike said:

No I don't think I read that. Was it relevant to Guys hydroplane attempt?

The rules explicitly allowed the fitting of planes, and they fitted one. I don't really see how that can be considered cheating. The bike clearly wasn't capable of hydroplaning without it.

Not really. It was about the TV program that followed the chaps who tried to break various obscure bike landspeed records at Daytona.

There was comments about fat old men 'only' being able to do Xmph on an old Indian etc, when their ZX-RRSP would do more than that out of the crate.

Just seemed a similar trend happening here.

[Fats25]

Mr2Mike said:

GTIR said:

I wouldn't fancy owning that bike after!

I thought it was quite a good advert for Suzuki to be honest. It spent best part of two hours at the bottom of a 30m lake and it didn't appear to take an awful lot to get it going.

There are two people on this forum that took longer to get a Yamaha going after a slight spill in the water.....

http://youtu.be/12upW3p3mUg

[scorcher]

Mr2Mike said:

Bloody hell there are some miserable tts on here

bogie said:

isnt that what motorsport is all about? interpreting the rules and trying to find an advantage you can make somewhere

In this case there wasn't even any ambiguity in the rules, they stuck to the letter of them.

Nothing miserable about a different opinion is there? I don't suppose they would of had 45 mins worth of film to show had he just got on a bike and rode it across a lake as per my link above though.
And of course nothing wrong with making the most of the rules.

[Fleegle]

Fats25 said:

Mr2Mike said:

GTIR said:

I wouldn't fancy owning that bike after!

I thought it was quite a good advert for Suzuki to be honest. It spent best part of two hours at the bottom of a 30m lake and it didn't appear to take an awful lot to get it going.

There are two people on this forum that took longer to get a Yamaha going after a slight spill in the water.....

http://youtu.be/12upW3p3mUg

I think we was about the same but without the help of all the crew

[sprinter1050]

You never will live that one down will you ?

[Fleegle]

sprinter1050 said:

You never will live that one down will you ?

I've broad shoulders

All part of the learning experience, but still out there so wasn't defeated by it.

Cleanest its ever been though

[GTIR]

Also. The oil came out blue like Lenor.

Why blue?

[Fleegle]

GTIR said:

Also. The oil came out blue like Lenor.

Why blue?

This was mine

[GTIR]

Fleegle said:

This was mine

Yes that's what I'd expect, but blue?