5th Gear Last night

[rhinochopig]

Anyone watch it?

What a great way to put into context how fast a top level speedway bike (with only 70bhp) really is. Over a two lap race the following occurred.

Blade powered off-road buggy - lapped within 1 lap.
Top class dirt tracker (650bhp chevy) - Lapped within 1.5 laps
Championship winning rallycross xara (500bhp) - Close but certainly no cigar.

Simply awesome.

As an aside, they also showed Honda's UK race HQ. Was that your office Craig?

[Rawwr]

Yeah, I saw it quite by accident and it was hard not to be impressed

[RemaL]

watched it, but you got to say the guy on the speedway bike knew what he was going, not that Tiff does not but if you had a guy in the rally car he might have beated then bike

[Office_Monkey]

Watched it, was mighty impressed seeing as the bike didn't even have brakes

[aeropilot]

Office_Monkey said:

Watched it, was mighty impressed seeing as the bike didn't even have brakes

Speedway bikes have never had brakes IIRC.

Good to see Speedway get some mass media coverage. I remember when it used to get good regular exposure on TV back in the early 1970's, and my Mum & Dad were almost reglious regular's at Wembley Stadium back in the late 40's - early 50's heyday of the Lions Speedway team.

[R5GTTgaz]

Speedway engines are of mega high compression so when you shut off the throttle its like putting the brakes on anyway.

[FourWheelDrift]

I still hate ITV's decision to cancel World of Sport which showed it and many other motor racing series, Grandstand on BBC1 was just Football, Horse racing, Football and Football.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbNVarO8i0M

Remember the diving off the cliffs at Acapulco, US Oval Truck racing and speedway on ice as well.

[aeropilot]

FourWheelDrift said:

I still hate ITV's decision to cancel World of Sport which showed it and many other motor racing series, Grandstand on BBC1 was just Football, Horse racing, Football and Football.

Indeed, but in fairness, Grandstand did used to feature a lot of motorsport as well back then, such as the BBC Grandstand Scramble Championship (when John Banks reigned supreme) and of course Rallycross, the only motorsport actually invented for TV and now totally abdonned by it.....

[hugoagogo]

I know that bloke who's rallycross car they used, didn't know he'd become british champion though (i think tiff actually said 'british rally champion' which is clearly wrong

[Jetl3on]

Anyone know if it is on again this week, missed it

[RemaL]

Jetl3on said:

Anyone know if it is on again this week, missed it

bbc iplayer

[Rawwr]

RemaL said:

Jetl3on said:

Anyone know if it is on again this week, missed it

bbc iplayer

For a show on Five?

[Jetl3on]

Rawwr said:

RemaL said:

Jetl3on said:

Anyone know if it is on again this week, missed it

bbc iplayer

For a show on Five?

[FourWheelDrift]

Not the entire show but all of the segments as clips are on the C5 website - http://fifthgear.five.tv/jsp/5gmain.jsp?mnk=410&am...

[castrolcraig]

five on demand.

http://demand.five.tv/

watch the cool segment at our workshops.

[catso]

aeropilot said:

Speedway bikes have never had brakes IIRC.

Or gears, just a clutch and a throttle.......

[Chilli]

catso said:

aeropilot said:

Speedway bikes have never had brakes IIRC.

Or gears, just a clutch and a throttle.......

Pah, sounds like my mum could ride one........Leave it.