Guy Martin’s 300 MPH Bike Update | Workshop Chat

[@wiktorioss]

"let's talk about oil" "yeah sure we need a bit of oil but I did 282MPH at 4am!!" this Guy guy is a madman and I hope he will keep entertaining us for many decades more!

[@chrisdovey4041]

This could have been an hour long of just listening to guy . Absolutely love him. Hes so happy to just talk and talk and go off on a tangent with this thing and then another thing. It just makes me so happy listening to him be like that because its exactly how my brain works

[@Justsaying12347]

Anything with Guy gets a like, living legend

[@scottaubrey8392]

“It’s basically a standard engine but everything is modified “ 😂 legend.

[@markg_r1751]

Guy has no idea how bloody interesting all that is, Fantastic stuff, could listen to him for hours

[@superblackbirdrider]

Quite sobering when he says "anyone trying to do this is dead". Before anyone starts ranting, it's his life, if that's how he wants to live it then good on him. Just please don't die Guy, we need mad nutters like you 😂

[@NUFC2412]

How can u not love Guy Martin ❤

[@Terry-Tibbs]

Please do a 2 hour chat with Guy . He is a pure genius

[@reachforthesky1849]

Great job Morris Lubricants supporting Guy. I try and buy your oil where possible

[@nickrider5220]

Great to see Guy still working on that 300 mph project, I'm sure he'll get there, the bike has more than enough power !

[@paul8161]

@nickrider5220 like the corny saying goes power is nothing without control, that's what he's struggling with at the moment getting the power down properly..but he will do it.

[@DaveLowe28]

Guy needs a podcast, or more specifically as he would never bother to set one up or continue with it unless it's a special interest, someone that can record Guy just unloading his mind every week. I could listen to him natter on very happily every week. You never know what gems are gonna come out.

[@lancashirebob3]

It's people like Guy with his innovative mentality that made this country great.

[@goodpeace1]

"That's not me being naked, it's the bike being naked" what a lad 😂

[@denniselvy3528]

Can't get enough his knowledge it's astounding love it

[@kevinharker1840]

I'd like to see Alan Milyard involved with Guy's project.

[@keithleivers4061]

Only trouble woukd be guy wuold be retired b4 it was completed 🎉😂

[@Ivan_1919]

Me too, who is he?

[@kevinharker1840]

@@keithleivers4061 It took Alan 6 months to build the viper engined bike.

[@TonyDean-y9c]

@@Ivan_1919 Faints.

[@DickGoesonya]

Guy could save himself some time by borrowing Allen's V 10 viper motor bike Think that thing could get close to 300 For Guy I think building a machine to meet that expectation 90 percent of the fun

[@Banditmanuk]

Love listening to Guy's enthusiasm. Enjoyed your video

[@boznorris527]

What i love about guy martin is that hes just spoke 45 minutes worth of stuff about the bike in the matter of 12 minutes 😂 fair play he is a true engineer and top man 🤙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@Pritch75]

Guy is a legend he loves a good chat, but also he takes a lot in as well when he’s listening I really do hope he achieves the 300mph he’s aiming for but most of all I really do hope he survives it as well.

[@svracing3]

I get the feeling Guy could talk till the cows come home about his bike

[@paul8161]

@svracing3 humm, if only he had said something like that in the video several times to give you that impression, eh?🤣

[@luddite6239]

Thanks for this update. I've followed Guy's project in the motorcycle press since the beginning but hadn't seen anything new recently, so this is most welcome. While I'm commenting, thanks also for your oil analysis service. I used this for my Ducati a couple of years ago, and the results were really useful. I'd recommend that service to anyone with an older bike or buying secondhand something with unknown history. The analysis can flag up potential problems in time for them to be dealt with before they become catastrophic! So thanks again.

[@medler2110]

I wish they'd give Guy a chance to talk 😂

[@StoatLoxley]

Tyres, as Guy says, thats the limiting factor, and thats probably the cause of the crashes. At those speeds everything is prototype and seat of the pants. Bit like early aviation.

[@maverick6631]

If he survives 300 mph he will be immortalised as the coolest human being on the planet, if he isn't already.

[@xpanco]

I haven't used the oils but the Morris Chain Lube are brilliant

[@jonathanprice5958]

Hi Guy. Just a few thoughts. Running the bike naked means the cold air is hitting the front of the engine and then wafting down the sides of it picking up heat as it travels past the bike. If you began with the fairing and had cone shaped air intakes with plastic tubes attached you could direct cold air from in front of the engine to specific areas on the engine or brakes etc. Also a huge splitter on the front and a spoiler on the rear would help with control and keeping the rear tyre on the ground, talking of tyres why not glue the tyre to the rim to stop it slipping. Jon p.s. I'm not an engineer and I'm rebuilding a Honda C90... Good luck.x

[@rosscameron9427]

" i can talk till the cows come home" 1000% said and said by Guy Martin.... the man is a legend

[@BestKiteboardingOfficial]

It's doesn't matter that the oil is so good it's not put under any stress, it's the fact Morris support British endeavours like this that counts. People remember the brand name, I know I will.

[@paul8161]

Guy, you're a mad man, 282 on two wheels....I'm surprised you can get your bolloc£s to fit on rhe seat they must be that big.. massive respect and i can't wait to see you hit 300!..😱

[@PLAYINGAROUND]

It's not the speed that's the issue, it's doing it in a short distance.

[@paul8161]

@PLAYINGAROUND you're half correct it's both..speed and distance =300!!

[@kevinlawes591]

It's them massive nuts that's slowing him down! 3-4 ham shanks before a run might be the key! 😉😆👍🏻

[@kevinharker1840]

@@paul8161 He's definitely a tile short of a full roof 🤪🤪

[@paul8161]

@kevinharker1840 definitely is but blooming clever and funny with it.🤣

[@nosherz]

Cars aiming for record lap times at the Nurburgring also top out around 280mph, when there’s room on the longest straight to go faster. This seems to be the practical limit, taking into account aerodynamics/rolling resistance, etc.

[@djwozzawoz]

"Oil, Guy, we're here to talk about Oil" haha. Great Stuff. I love Guy..

[@rajivahir9199]

His such a humble intelligent passionate guy, his a true legend

[@teeslunk]

I’d love to see him go 300 MPH

[@nyftn]

racing trucks and motorbikes , love it .

[@AndyWontTakeItAnymore]

`hi guys', so, why do you use Morris Lubricants? Well, because you sponsor us and give them to us for Free 🤩

[@CS_247]

I used to have a sponsorship from Motul, all oils, fluids, cleaners etc. No money on top, only product. When we lost it we suddenly realised just how valuable that sponsorship was. That stuff is EXPENSIVE!!😮

[@stevepitts7998]

I have a feeling that Guy would drop the lube in a heartbeat if he felt it compromised even the minutest level of performance

[@trque0fthedevil]

Brilliant to hear about the projects…… learned faff all about the oils though 😂

[@andy123law]

Guy Martin is my kind of nutcase 😂 brilliant 👍

[@gavinsmith9022]

Air resistance and drag must be huge after 200mph, hence the extra HP to get to 300mph, i remember engineers telling James May when he first drove the veyron that it only needs about 250HP to hit 150mph but another 750HP to hit 255mph.

[@johnpaice8481]

It would be so fascinating to really get to talk to guy Martin about motorcycle tuning and engineering

[@Kingtrollface259]

Absolutely mad as a box of frogs ,keep it up guy

[@1812Stevie]

Morris, I’m sorry they’re not directly sales-pitching your product for you 😂 But if you can keep getting Guy Martin to talk about his projects, I promise I’ll keep buying your oil 👍👍

[@auntwicky]

Guy mistakenly stated that Bill Warner's >300 mph run was unofficial. This is untrue: Bill ran 311.945 mph in 2011 in Loring Maine at a former SAC base. The Loring Timing Association oversaw the sanctioned event (and continues to run events today) and it is indeed an official record.

[@graemeadamson7272]

What a man !! Guy Martin's brain must have massively more capacity, to store and deliver on-tap, incredible ammounts of technical data than us mere mortals . Unbelievable .

[@jamest5149]

Guy should go for two records next, the naked speed record and the totally naked speed record (bike and rider)

[@ripvanwinkle3509]

Guy's cows are incredibly homesick :)

[@larkop6504]

Would love to see the aero package on this bike, love that hes always pushing his interests

[@ch3no2uk99]

It's an amazing bit of kit and look forward to where it gets to speed wise. For a wheel driven record it's going to be amazing. Eric Teboul managed 290mph in a 1/4 mile on two wheels but was Hydrogen Peroxide powered rocket bike...

[@ncsteeltoe]

Legend

[@sresto7943]

Guy has no filter, but its great hes found his happy place, another book wouldnt go amiss.

[@davidperry4026]

Guy " I'll bore you to death " i have never been so entertained with a engineering chat.

[@sammyg8456]

Can you try an extended fin off the back end to try pull it straight like how a darts flight works

[@shaunwhitmore3291]

Dave did a great job interacting with guy to try maintain some focus 😂

[@rogerclyde2720]

Take it to Bonneville. Concider casting the enging block and head as one piece like the Offenhouser. Then it will hold the pressure and you can strengthen the main bearing areas.

[@NBSV1]

The goal is 300mph in a standing mile. Going 300 at bonneville isn’t an easy task either, but doing it in a mile from a stop on an un-prepped surface is a difficult task.

[@a-fl-man640]

large attachments as Mr Hobbs would say.

[@TheBlibo]

Hi its great to hear of the progress on the bike, if you can't hold the engine bak on the dyno you are using the wrong kind of dyno you need to drive the dyno directly so you have your rear wheel sprocket on the dyno flange rather than a rolling road type of dyno, its a lot of messing about but worth it in the long run. I'm sure you will achieve your goal Good luck

[@paul8161]

@TheBlibo the bike being too powerful was the issue because the dyno couldn't cope.. I'm pretty sure he knows which dyno to use.

[@TheBlibo]

@paul8161 with respect Having been in the engine test business for nearly 40 years I can be sure that I know what I am talking about and so would Guy Martin, his problem is the crank cases are to weak for the power generated, putting a vehicle of any description up the track is a lot more forgiving than a dyno that can hold an engine at full power for any length of time. Most rolling road dynos can only cope with acceleration runs and not hold an engine at full power for periods of minutes or hours. So if your goal is to find out why and when components fail a rolling road dyno is pretty useless

[@paul8161]

@TheBlibo with respect, I said I thought guy knows which dyno to use. That's all . Nothing else.

[@Terryb31]

That's great Guy, but what about the oil. ? PMSL Top man.

[@martinnorton2938]

Guy is just great and dave 👍

[@andrewhiggins8873]

I have great respect for Guy but i used to be a Morris oil customer for 25 years. They stopped supplying me because i wasnt buying huge amounts they stopped supplying me. I had to buy from a big supplier thus raising prices considerably. I started using other makes of oil which where as good and some cases better for less.

[@evanjones2539]

I remember when Morris's of Salop produced recycled oil... only fit for a chainsaw blade..!

[@eugenecussen3735]

could you lightly knurl the rims to prevent tyre slip?

[@eugenecussen3735]

but using a pattern that prevents air leakage...

[@MrGarycoww]

Love this stuff,guys getting s$#@ done 👍

[@jonty4664]

Legend 👊🏻✊🏻

[@AndrewMitchell001]

3.3 bar is 47.8 PSI if your wondering peeps.

[@AaronsAnglingJourney]

Brillaint

[@adrianpavey2395]

For my understanding can somebody please explain for me how an increased trail figure of 212mm as quoted is achieved by apparently moving the wheel axle forward’s of the fork? My logic is telling me it needs to be behind the fork to provide trail. Any explanations?

[@crm.carpentry]

3rd wheel 😂❤ bless him! He wanted to chat about oil 😅

[@toucheturtle3840]

I hit 60mph on my Suzuki ER50 going downhill. It had a 16 tooth front sprocket..

[@missydee6085]

And that's all there is to it... 🤯

[@peterfletcher2611]

Think the guy wanted to promote the lubricants abit more , poor chap! Could have said this wouldn’t be possible without the help from morris Lubricants, so go out and buy!! haha.

[@coop69coop]

Think guy needs to put his money where his mouth is , carwow drag race against Pedrosa on the MotoGP ktm. It would be interesting at the very least but that thing is just ballistic

[@19Robson48]

Did I hear it right? 750hp going to the rear wheel? MAD! Think of the air friction- standard road bikes are pushing just over 200bhp these days and are capable of reaching close to 200mph. So in order to reach another 100 you need way over triple the power. One thing I couldn't bear in this video- subtitle guy, please learn the difference between brake and break. These are two completely different words.

[@paul8161]

@19Robson48 I enjoyed the video and didn't need to know the different words you saw, and it didn't spoil the video.

[@adamfulford6423]

Guys you should have got a couple of chairs and let this man talk for 3 hours!

[@robertoduranos5196]

Legend..

[@buckchocklit]

Says hes got to run the bike naked (no fairing) to 272mph and then he said it'd be fine 😂 a mental genius

[@buggerlugz6753]

Guy, can't you use a hub dyno for the bike ???? (I know of a guy in Birmingham who I reckon would love to help out......dynotorque)

[@philipe1247]

Nothing mentioned about Hokeshot racing

[@barryjackson2197]

Big Numbers lol..Brilliant..

[@GetStuffed1]

Why not get a set of billit crankcases made if you’re constantly destroying the stock ones.

[@anthonymurphy2806]

Stuck morris lubricants into my Willys Jeep - no worries!

[@deandee8082]

you going to do a standing mile or take her to the salt? or put on your big boy pants and do a Burt Monroe on a low tide beach somewhere?

[@kevinkvs9746]

I could listen to guy all day long just talking shite I don’t understand at all 🤣

[@bossbuick8615]

fastest 1/4 mile on a drag bike 268 so with half a mile and taller gearing an extra 32mph ?

[@Cossieplumber]

Man he could probably talk till the cows come home

[@markvickery4032]

Guy you are the bolloxs bro followed your career for years don't push it to far your better valued alive than dead 👍👍👍👍👍

[@beetle6323]

What a boy.

[@michaeltaylor8835]

Acceleration from 160 is scary

[@caseyrimdinger3220]

Has Guy been on Joe Rogan yet?

[@longjonwhite]

They wouldn’t understand a bloody word he said!

[@theodavies8754]

No point suggesting 299 is fast enough.

[@tddsctt]

Why the hell do they have subtitles

[@robertmaitland09]

Britain's Burt Munro.

[@michaeltaylor8835]

I thought guy was not chasing speed anymore

[@tamarmolerick3814]

"When you're only doing 200 miles per hour"

[@Garry-pd8gw]

Surely, his balls of steel are a weight issue 🤔

[@antonoat]

Can we have that conversation in English please! Lol.

[@bigantplowright5711]

Guy what's left of your luck will run out, don't do it.

[@NathanNostaw]

In a normal conversation, saying yeah is just part of engagement, but in a recording or video it is outright bloody annoying. Let the man just talk and stop interrupting him.

[@tomredman5411]

Guy I think you lost Adrian 2 mins in,have you been on the mushrooms 😆 , you’d be better going for the fastest talking bloke on the planet..😆😆😆..great post this one..

[@WayneDerry-rs1up]

MR Martin I'd love to take you out for dinner you are a proper grease monkey a love everything you've done records programmes but ye real me dad wa a miner 21 colliery electrian I'd love to come to Grimsby t take thee for some snap x

[@KeithBurnett-f1o]

Grow up

[@apox5308]

A turbo on a motorbike doesn’t really work you can’t manage the torque relative to engine capacity. Supercharger is the way to go, Kawasaki engineers understood this from endless computer simulations

[@nialbarnsley4108]

#1:48 you cant measure 750bhp on a dynamic 😮😮😮😮 I confused . They do 1000bhp bikes all day long in the states. ON A DYNO. !!!!!!! I wonder I think one runs as bad as his Spondon gsxr turbo. . I think people get carried away with who guy Martin is. He's a bike racer. NOT a bike builder / tuner with 30 years knowledge actually doing the work on thousands of bikes. He's basically just like the rest of us motorcyclist who have a bike and build for a hobby. We've all done it. GUY just talks so fast trying to bamboozle people, faster he talks sounds like he knows what he's talking about. BUT DOESN'T

[@wiktorioss]

actually, Guy has built multiple bikes, i.e. the wall of death record bike was his design, the pikes peak bike was his design (it failed but he had very limited resources and time to make it), there's few more and many that we don't know about. He might not have access to the dynos he really needs but he surely knows what he's doing!! also please remember that in UK there's barely any rolling road dynos not to mention ones designed for motorbikes!

[@nialbarnsley4108]

@wiktorioss people way over rate GUY he's just a home mechanic. Who could back in the day race bikes. End of.

[@madb132]

@@nialbarnsley4108 Guy is not a "Home mechanic" HE IS A QUALFIED engineerr, He built and tuned his own bikes he raced. Guy also works as a truck mechanic.End Of!

[@madb132]

Guy IS a motorbike tuner! Tuned all his race bikes as well as others . and YES, he has been tuning for over 30 years too. Guy doesn't live in the states either, Don't know why you are comparing another country, Guy lives in the UK. He knows what he is talking about. Appears, you don't know what you are talking about.🤣

[@nialbarnsley4108]

@madb132 myself 40 years in the motor trade. ... he's a home mechanic. He hasnt been full time for years