Ulitimate Fixie coming soon. Guy Martin Speed

Excellent. Brilliant build too rourkie. Is your paint done in house?

Yes, all painting is done by Myself and Phil.

That made for pretty good viewing. Props to Rourkie for the build, the constant face of apprehension I found quite amusing especially when trying to common sense Guy into wider tyres. I would have thought a seasoned two wheel man would have immediately agreed with the suggestion of wider tyres. He was shitting a brick though.

Think Guy wasn't thinking straight at that point, he wanted to just beat the record and have done with, it was very scary on sand. (after first run he thought he would come down at some stage) On tarmac he did 111mph and never flinched he loved it.

Could we get some indication for the price of the build? Just out of interest

Few 1 off parts from Hope that they made just for us and Guy so unsure if or how much they would cost. Perhaps 5-6K total total guess.

Great programme and an amazing presenter as I already knew. He is fucking nuts.

I did have a few problems / issues with the programme (please forgive me if I missed something) -

(1) I am astonished that they did not say more about cycling on sand, and I am astonished that anywhere near that speed was possible on sand. I fucked my feet once jumping onto hard flat sand so I know how rock hard it can be but even so.

(2) Presumably the bike was built for sand not tarmac - but I thought that they said something about the steel absorbing bumps in the road - what is the truth? Was the plan sand all along?
(3) There was the whole thing about his fitness and I'm sure he needed to be fit to do it... but how much was down to fitness and how much simply down to how fast the truck was going? To what extent is the record anything to do with being able to pedal and to what extent is it simply preparation and team and balls of steel?

No sand was after thought as we Bruntingthorpe was too short and another venue chaged their minds, and wouldn't let us use it.

Pendine is special but only place long enough, not ideal had it been tarmac he could have done 130 140 or even 150mph bike could do it and Guy had the nuts.

It was all about Guy he is FIT! and very capable cyclist if not racer. In testing he lost trucj got out of saddle came past me in a flat out car and caught truck! I was stunned.

Reynolds 853 according to my grass (the photos on their site).

Yep 853 although think stays were Columbus fork blades corverted into rear chainstays. 853 is mega strong and ultra durable.