“The latest episode of the Speed With Guy Martin series airs on Channel 4 tonight and follows the mechanic, Isle of Man TT racer and all-round speed freak as he attempts to pedal an airship across the English Channel”

It’s getting a bit Alan Partridge now.

Anyone for a quick game of Monkey Tennis?

I love these programmes

But it will go along these lines

Record will be a foreign bloke. Guy says that’s not on (while drinking tea)
Then he goes off the a balloon and bike builder
Then he goes to sports dept at a uni where they test his fitness ( while wearing hope shorts and five
Tens)
They tell him he might not manage it
He has another cup of tea and tells them he’s gonna give it a bash

Can’t wait for it!

Cozz are you on the production team? Lol

Deflated.

Erm…

I shouldn’t have bothered with the PSA.

I enjoyed it. Even if the end was very disappointing.

Although I guessed it wasn’t going to end well as it was so late in the show when he actually started.

The safety training was made out to be far more dangerous than it actually was.

£25,000 a time to fill it up if I heard correctly.

Can’t afford to do that too many times. I wonder if he’ll have another go at it. Seems a waste of all that effort if not.

£25,000 a time to fill it up

Surely they will reclaim most of the gas? They won’t just vent it off?

Surely they will reclaim most of the gas? They won’t just vent it off?

It didn’t look that way to me when they deflated it in the hanger. Looked like they just undid a valve and let it out.

Missed it, but SPEED? With Guy Martin? pedal an airship? How speedy is that exactly?

Looked like they just undid a valve and let it out.

I understand that they would release small quantities to adjust lift but not the whole lot at the end of the attempt.

Commercial divers have reclaim systems fitted to their helmets to recover helium, it’s so valuable.

Yeah, that was a bit rubbish…

However, it did help me get my Guy Martin impression honed…

“blah blah chap tea…blah blah give it a crack…blah tea…sport..chief…”

I wonder if this has jumped the shark now?

Anyway, lets bring this back to a constructive direction: “what would you like to see on the programme?”
DrP – “I’d like to see Guy tune and convert a mini (original) to beat a top fuel dragster..”

DrP

I’d like to see Guy ride round a historic track on a historic motorcycle and see how he compares to the great riders of the past. I’m assuming it might be very difficult to find a suitable track and bike.

How speedy is that exactly?

13 knots.

Which, if you’re being pedantic, is a speed, just not a very high one.

Apart from not making the crossing I enjoyed the programme.

Having visited Hythe a couple of years ago I would have carried on pedalling irrespective of the weather.

double bubble

How close did he get? I get bored by all the faux danger that they always make out is involved. Far too much dramatisation.

Next episode…. be reet!

I enjoyed it, in a have-it-on-in-the-background kind of way. Odd choice of challenge for a TV programme though, given that it was so dependent on external factors (mainly the weather) that couldn’t be overcome by skill or determination (i.e. what Guy specialises in!)

I’d like to see the footage he did of the Trans America unaided (whatever it’s called) made into a programme, these current crop of attempts at something lack a little “awe, cool, wish I could do that” entertainment.

Worth watching, but kinda record and not sit in for kinda way.

I enjoyed it, despite the fact that he made it about 10m out to sea and the “faux-danger” commentary, too few real characters on TV these days and i find i laugh and chuckle more in a documentary with Guy Martin than i do watching any American supposed comedy programme.

It was certainly the weakest ‘project’ to date. The airship was already designed and built, and had been for years. The interesting bits for me are designing and making the thing.

Still better than Antiques Roadshow, though.

I quite liked the programme, although don’t know why.

I was staggered that they just seemed to vent off £25K of helium each time they deflated the airship. Would liked to have seen the outakes of Guy speaking with a squeaky helium voice

I think the ‘speed’ thing has had its day. I enjoyed the first series but it’s all a bit cliched now.

Guy drinks tea
Guy is a natural and amazing at whatever at his first attempt
Guy talks a lot and says nothing

Lats nights program was also far too long with most of it being inside a hanger.

What I didn’t understand was that on day 1 of the attempt the airship wasn’t tethered but on day 2, due to CAA rules, it had to be.

Anything that keeps Guy on our screens is great in my book. I really enjoyed “Our Guy in India” and apparently there is a China one coming soon too