Monocoque (/ˈmɒnɵkɒk/ or /ˈmɒnɵkoʊk/) is a structural approach that supports loads through an object's external skin, similar to a pingpong ball or egg shell. The term is also used to indicate a form of vehicle construction in which the skin provides the main structural support, although this is rare and is usually confused with either semi-monocoque or a unibody. The word monocoque comes from the Greek for single (mono) and French for shell (coque).[1] The technique may also be called structural skin or stressed skin.There's usually someone like him in every workplace, and it's fun to tick off the 'in jokes', 'I'm not a real welder' et al. He gets away with it because he's got solid achievements behind him. The nearest we'd have to him in long distance cycling would be Andy Wilkinson, who'd be a natural at this sort of thing.
And another thing.
I wouldn't have been quite as keen as Guy bombing down that hill, then having to turn, on what is virtually a steel rim wheel. Nightmare.
43 minutes! It's the revelation at around 33 minutes that got me. Dog poo. Rubbed in to cow hide to help in the manufacture of leather making belts for machinery.
I'm just wondering how the BBC got him to talk slower for his canal boat series!
Having watched that, it looks like he's doing that on 'slicks'.
Risking duplication of threads but couldn't find anything else.Thanks for the heads up torslanda.
Is anyone watching the guy Martin prog/series that begins in a little under an hour on C4?
It appears he's trying to VERY FAST on a road bike . . .
More here . . . (http://road.cc/content/news/103330-isle-man-tt-star-switches-bicycle-tv-attempt-110mph-british-record-video)
"Not available in your region" Grrrr
"Not available in your region" Grrrr
It's on 4seven at 8.00pm tonight :)
I'm just wondering how the BBC got him to talk slower for his canal boat series!
It will be a 20 year old coverall. Guy Martin is the mechanics mechanic.
Useful fact I discovered is that he's from Kirmington, near Grimsby. Those of you who did LEL rode through there just by Humberside Airport on the way North and South.
Useful fact I discovered is that he's from Kirmington, near Grimsby. Those of you who did LEL rode through there just by Humberside Airport on the way North and South.
If you think that fact is useful I'd strongly advise that you stay away from my Swiss Army Knife...your brain will explode.
Tonight's episode is great so far, hope he does it.
It's nice to see someone on the telly with chipped and oily fingernails :thumbsup:
Tonight's episode is great so far, hope he does it.
It's nice to see someone on the telly with chipped and oily fingernails :thumbsup:
And massive sideboards! ;D
What a shame it was sand. I reckon he could have done 125 mph on tarmac. They should have closed the M1 for him!
43 minutes! It's the revelation at around 33 minutes that got me. Dog poo. Rubbed in to cow hide to help in the manufacture of leather making belts for machinery.Not just the leather belts for machinery. It used to be very widely used in tanning. Collected by 'pure finders' (yes, they called it 'pure'), who sold it to tanners. You could make a living that way. A shit living in more ways than one, but a living.
Brilliant! It was excellent tonight.
Hope there's another series planned.
Tonight's episode is great so far, hope he does it.
It's nice to see someone on the telly with chipped and oily fingernails :thumbsup:
And massive sideboards! ;D
Don't knock 'em, mine are catching his up :D
He's also got lots of bikes too by the look of it. Either that or he's borrowed them for the series!
Brilliant! It was excellent tonight.
Hope there's another series planned.
Yeah, it was another good 'un! I loved it when he pissed off the stuffy bloke at the Cresta run by completely ignoring his instructions to brake and slow down :P
You really, really don't want to live near a tannery using ancient methods, or get your water supply from downstream of one.
43 minutes! It's the revelation at around 33 minutes that got me. Dog poo. Rubbed in to cow hide to help in the manufacture of leather making belts for machinery.Not just the leather belts for machinery. It used to be very widely used in tanning. Collected by 'pure finders' (yes, they called it 'pure'), who sold it to tanners. You could make a living that way. A shit living in more ways than one, but a living.
Pigeon & chicken shit have also been used, & urine was used for an earlier stage in the process.
You really, really don't want to live near a tannery using ancient methods, or get your water supply from downstream of one.
PS. Urine was also used for washing cloth.
You really, really don't want to live near a tannery using ancient methods, or get your water supply from downstream of one.
The reading today in church today was Peter's vision at the home of Simon the Tanner. I pointed out to TODM that Cornelius' men wouldn't have needed to ask directions. They could just follow their nose.
He's always been in to his bikes mainly MTB's you'll see him mucking about on one in between races :)
I had only ever sort of heard of Guy before this series. Now I have watched everything I can find on Youtube :)
Top bloke. Enthusiastic people always seem even more enthusiastic with a strong regional accent for some reason!
I had only ever sort of heard of Guy before this series. Now I have watched everything I can find on Youtube :)
Top bloke. Enthusiastic people always seem even more enthusiastic with a strong regional accent for some reason!
I hope you've seen the onboard with commentary of him doing the fastest ever lap of the IoM tt course. Utter madness, utterly compelling.
New show coming later this year!
Guy Martin celebrates the people behind the Spitfire (http://www.channel4.com/info/press/news/guy-martin-celebrates-the-people-behind-the-spitfire)
New show coming later this year!
Guy Martin celebrates the people behind the Spitfire (http://www.channel4.com/info/press/news/guy-martin-celebrates-the-people-behind-the-spitfire)
19:30 tonight!
New show coming later this year!
Guy Martin celebrates the people behind the Spitfire (http://www.channel4.com/info/press/news/guy-martin-celebrates-the-people-behind-the-spitfire)
19:30 tonight!
There is also to be a new series of "Speed With...", apparently starting later this month. May contain "bicycles" or traces of "bicycles".
Is there a machine that has such emotional impact as a Spitfire on us Brits?
Is there a machine that has such emotional impact as a Spitfire on us Brits?
Colossus?
If you haven't met the rebuild in the, erm, metal, then I highly recommend it. Feeling the heat and listening to the clatter of the relays is every bit as good as the drone of a Merlin.
* Guy revealed he has a Merlin engine in his living room (I think I may have a man-crush). He strikes me as the sort of person who may just fire it up as well. Certainly a more dramatic way of heating the room than my log fire.
Is there a machine that has such emotional impact as a Spitfire on us Brits?
Colossus?
If you haven't met the rebuild in the, erm, metal, then I highly recommend it. Feeling the heat and listening to the clatter of the relays is every bit as good as the drone of a Merlin.
I used to be a Strowger Exchange maintenance engineer for B.T....I've heard all the clattering relays, and buzzing of pawls on ratchets, I want to hear for one lifetime.
* Guy revealed he has a Merlin engine in his living room (I think I may have a man-crush). He strikes me as the sort of person who may just fire it up as well. Certainly a more dramatic way of heating the room than my log fire.
Have you not seen this then?
Guy Martin's passion for life (http://www.channel4.com/programmes/guy-martins-passion-for-life/4od#3745913)
"If you want something, do the graft, earn the money and go and get it. I wanted a Merlin engine so I did the graft, earned the money and got one".
I'm intrigued by the idea of how noisy Colossus was, it was largely electronic.
The Bombes that Turing used to decode Enigma were electro-mechanical, so would have sounded like telephone exchanges.
I drink regularly with a couple of ex BT engineers
Tandem's just a bike for two people though, innit. Innit?
Tandem's just a bike for two people though, innit. Innit?
From the lat. "at length"
I enjoyed the programme very much, but I'm a bit confused as at what record they actually broke? Surely HPV and upright bike records are separate categories, no?
I am a researcher working on the Channel 4 programme Speed with Guy Martin, we are in our second series and are looking into endurance 24 hour cycling records, we are particularly interested in the record of Andy Wilkinson and have been talking with him. We are currently trying to get together any photo and video sources that we can feature in our programme, trying to get them together by the end of the week. We are very interested in the video you have on Youtube and were wondering if you are able to give us permission to feature it in our programme, Also could you let me know if you have any more photos or videos of the attempt. If you can get back to me as soon as possible that would be fantastic,
LivingThroughTV
Hadn't seen video footage of Andy's state at the end before. Found myself laughing almost in sympathy. I cannot comprehend how that must've felt. Incredible, incredible ride.
I enjoyed the programme very much, but I'm a bit confused as at what record they actually broke? Surely HPV and upright bike records are separate categories, no?
(finally watched this ... )
Yup, great entertainment, with some interesting engineering/cycling factoids sprinkled in there. :thumbsup:
A very minor query-cum-niggle ... The 100metre speed trial they did; IIRC they were around 10secs on uprights, so around 23mph. I can average 23mph over 10 miles! I'm often last in club 10s, with many riders averaging 26-27mph.
Was this a realistic "demonstration"? Are my figures wrong? Are they actually both plodders, and/or with hardly any cycle-specific training behind them?
(finally watched this ... )
Yup, great entertainment, with some interesting engineering/cycling factoids sprinkled in there. :thumbsup:
A very minor query-cum-niggle ... The 100metre speed trial they did; IIRC they were around 10secs on uprights, so around 23mph. I can average 23mph over 10 miles! I'm often last in club 10s, with many riders averaging 26-27mph.
Was this a realistic "demonstration"? Are my figures wrong? Are they actually both plodders, and/or with hardly any cycle-specific training behind them?
From a standing start.
Is there a machine that has such emotional impact as a Spitfire on us Brits?
Colossus?
If you haven't met the rebuild in the, erm, metal, then I highly recommend it. Feeling the heat and listening to the clatter of the relays is every bit as good as the drone of a Merlin.
Tandem's just a bike for two people though, innit. Innit?
From the lat. "at length"
You know that, I know that, but hoi polloi like, don't. Innit.
For those poor benighted souls who have not benefited from a classical education and are likely to make up the bulk of the audience, a tandem *is* just a bike for two people, and they're not likely to be fussed about whether the riders are side by side, in line astern or indeed facing in opposite directions.
Do you reckon most folk are more likely to get a sense of what he's trying to do if they hear 'tandem,' or if they hear 'sociable recumbent tadpole tricycle'?
Is there a machine that has such emotional impact as a Spitfire on us Brits?
Is there a machine that has such emotional impact as a Spitfire on us Brits?
I went to RAF Montrose a few months ago. I was stunned by just how big a Merlin engine is. A spitfire isn't so much a plane as a bloody great engine with wings attached and a Pilot desperately hanging on for the ride.
Is there a machine that has such emotional impact as a Spitfire on us Brits?
I went to RAF Montrose a few months ago. I was stunned by just how big a Merlin engine is. A spitfire isn't so much a plane as a bloody great engine with wings attached and a Pilot desperately hanging on for the ride.
A very minor query-cum-niggle ... The 100metre speed trial they did; IIRC they were around 10secs on uprights, so around 23mph. I can average 23mph over 10 miles! I'm often last in club 10s, with many riders averaging 26-27mph.
Was this a realistic "demonstration"? Are my figures wrong? Are they actually both plodders, and/or with hardly any cycle-specific training behind them?
I thought tonight's episode was fantastic. Great telly. But I was left wondering what happened next between him and the French girl...
I thought tonight's episode was fantastic. Great telly. But I was left wondering what happened next between him and the French girl...
And did you clock the head boffin's T shaped shirt slogan?
"x=n+1"
I though he was engaged to his manager Steph.
I though he was engaged to his manager Steph.
Possibly not for much longer if she sees the way he was carrying on last night.
And did you clock the head boffin's T shaped shirt slogan?
"x=n+1"
He absolutely loved being in that crash (apart from ruining his helmet's custom paint job).
I broke five vertebrae, but they bolted six together, from T4 to T10, because two are unstable, meaning there’s a chance they could move and damage my spinal column. They had to rod my spine because I broke my sternum too. Normally the front will hold the back together or the back will hold the front, but I had broken both front and back. My sternum is cracked straight down the middle, but that’s only cartilage so they don’t do anything to try repair it.
I broke five ribs and two metacarpals in right hand, too, and my hand’s been plated.
There is to be a third series of "Speed With Guy Martin" :thumbsup:
The Triumph Infor Rocket features a carbon Kevlar monocoque construction with two turbocharged Triumph Rocket III engines producing a combined 1000bhp @ 9000rpm. The enclosed motorcycle is 25.5 feet long, 2 feet wide and 3 feet tall, and runs on methanol. Guy will run the Rocket in the Division C (streamlined motorcycle) category.
I've not seen it but the explanation from a co-worker here is they had to average 150mph (or somesuch) over a set distance.
It's actually not as bonkers as it sounds and is rather hard to achieve. There is a similar albeit much slower format here in the UK and Europe called regularity rallying, from which special stage rallying through the forests bred back in the 1960s. The basic premise is to hold a set average speed over a pre-planned route determined by the organisers but only revealed to the crews at the last moment. In the UK it's always <30mph (or 50kph in Europe) and takes place on open public roads, normally for historic cars only but some low powered modern cars do a similar sort of thing.
Holding 24.7mph average exactly on a narrow B-road or country lane is not easy at all, the organisers can then be dastardly and put in a point where this might change to 24.5mph and that's where the skill of the co-driver comes in using a stopwatch and a printed set of speed tables (GPS/satnav is strictly not allowed). Try it and see!
OK. I know this series (these serieseseseseses?) is about making drama-docu where, suddenly, nothing happens (even without recumbents & fords) but last night's was an exercise in documenting the rising cost of helium whilst 'avin a LARF' at French bureaucracy and illustrating that it's a 'long way' to pedal a balloon across the Channel without actually doing it.
3/10 Must try harder. See Me.
I watched his latest episode of "speed" or what should have been "slow" yesterday.
what an effing meal they made of the survival course. Thousands of people do similar every year to get into a helicopter to go to work.
According to MCN, Bonneville hasn't gone well.
Minor crash ends record attempt (http://www.motorcyclenews.com/news/2016/september/live-from-bonneville-guy-martin-land-speed-record-attempt/#article-534496)
That one was a bit crap... technology has moved on, they said at the start of the program...I missed the start of the prog, but this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vQkBF9WNoc) is how to do it. You need to be able to hit the water fast enough to start foiling immediately - I'm not convinced it's going to be possible to get the machine to ride up with pedal power alone. Did The Roolz permit a start ramp?
Couldn't even get near a 20+ year old record! That Lincoln bunch were a waste of space though. I take it they burned the budget at the start of the series.
You can do with paddle power alone. There have been quite a few successful hydrofoil kayaks. I imagine it takes a fair bit of skill and fitness to get them up on the foil. 27kph speed quoted.That one was a bit crap... technology has moved on, they said at the start of the program...I missed the start of the prog, but this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vQkBF9WNoc) is how to do it. You need to be able to hit the water fast enough to start foiling immediately - I'm not convinced it's going to be possible to get the machine to ride up with pedal power alone. Did The Roolz permit a start ramp?
Couldn't even get near a 20+ year old record! That Lincoln bunch were a waste of space though. I take it they burned the budget at the start of the series.
That one was a bit crap... technology has moved on, they said at the start of the program...
Couldn't even get near a 20+ year old record! That Lincoln bunch were a waste of space though. I take it they burned the budget at the start of the series.
I believe that an effective propeller drive can be garnered from an old school hand drill - like what was maded in Vicktoryan Tymes . . .
Could I also add, with reference to Guy Martin, I wish they'd put subtitles on the screen whenever he's speaking. I've lost count the amount of times I've asked my wife: "What'd he say!?"
Because he can?
This is Guy Martin we are talking about. Suitability is a state of mind.......
Missed the start of this Our Guy In China, but is there a reason why Guy is doing a 350mi ride across a desert on a tatty old flat barred single speed hybrid and wearing civvies rather than, y'know, something more suitable?
By Jove Riggers, you've nailed it. Guy Martin is Fred Dibnah on steroids :thumbsup:
It was actually his single-speed commuter bike from home. That's why he had to walk some of the hills.
Better than 240 miles a day, for 20 daysBecause he can?
This is Guy Martin we are talking about. Suitability is a state of mind.......
Although he did appear to be wearing Lycra when he stripped down half way along the ride.
(I see he's on a hopefully record breaking jaunt round the UK coast line right now. Linky to Cycling Weakly (http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/guy-martin-sets-off-attempt-break-british-coast-cycling-record-303362))
Better than 240 miles a day, for 20 daysBecause he can?
This is Guy Martin we are talking about. Suitability is a state of mind.......
Although he did appear to be wearing Lycra when he stripped down half way along the ride.
(I see he's on a hopefully record breaking jaunt round the UK coast line right now. Linky to Cycling Weakly (http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/guy-martin-sets-off-attempt-break-british-coast-cycling-record-303362))
That's a tough targetin winter.Bloody daft time to tackle it. I'd like to see what sort of bike he's riding - and if he's wearing baggy shorts to try that.
By Jove Riggers, you've nailed it. Guy Martin is Fred Dibnah on steroids :thumbsup:
In fairness.. that was my initial point on the OP.
By Jove Riggers, you've nailed it. Guy Martin is Fred Dibnah on steroids :thumbsup:
In fairness.. that was my initial point on the OP.
Could I also add, with reference to Guy Martin, I wish they'd put subtitles on the screen whenever he's speaking. I've lost count the amount of times I've asked my wife: "What'd he say!?"
He's like a roving modern Fred Dibnah isn't he.
Could I also add, with reference to Guy Martin, I wish they'd put subtitles on the screen whenever he's speaking. I've lost count the amount of times I've asked my wife: "What'd he say!?"
He's like a roving modern Fred Dibnah isn't he.
At least he does seem to say everything twice, which gives us a bit of a chance to catch up with what he's saying!
TG posted somefing on Facebook about this being higher mpd than his month record. It's also more than Amanda Coker is doing on a nearly pan-flat course (admittedly for 10 months!). I don't know the "official" route but I doubt it is very flat - anyone have the details?Better than 240 miles a day, for 20 daysBecause he can?
This is Guy Martin we are talking about. Suitability is a state of mind.......
Although he did appear to be wearing Lycra when he stripped down half way along the ride.
(I see he's on a hopefully record breaking jaunt round the UK coast line right now. Linky to Cycling Weakly (http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/guy-martin-sets-off-attempt-break-british-coast-cycling-record-303362))
That's a tough targetin winter.Bloody daft time to tackle it. I'd like to see what sort of bike he's riding - and if he's wearing baggy shorts to try that.
FTFY
Much of Britain's coastline is "sub-optimal" for cycling long distances in a day and 240 miles is a long way even on optimal roads.
I'd be interested in Teethgrinder's view on it.
4,802, Guy reckons.That article implies that there is an official route - hence my question!
http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/guy-martin-sets-off-attempt-break-british-coast-cycling-record-303362
I've tried to find some way of tracking his progress, but can't see anything. Is it all being kept under wraps for the TV program?I would imagine so. Plus they may not want the hassle of roadside groupies (and/or Oiks).
I said it was a tall order.
Seems like he's crocked his achilles.
(Not an uncommon injury for long-distance cyclists).
I like the fact he gets most of a page and one of the greatest riders to ever to race the TT gets one paragraph as a footnote. Nothing beats having a 'celebrity' on the team!
I wonder what his new team-mate reckons to Mr Martin's comment of a few years back, along the lines of "John McGuinness could do with a couple of passes through a bacon slicer".
I wonder what his new team-mate reckons to Mr Martin's comment of a few years back, along the lines of "John McGuinness could do with a couple of passes through a bacon slicer".
And I've just heard that those beastly Australians are planning to have a crack at the 24-hour tandem record.
Channel 4, tonight, 20:00. Joins the Williams pit crew.
Should be interesting...
Channel 4, tonight, 20:00. Joins the Williams pit crew.
Should be interesting...
It was a pity that in their trailers for the show, Channel 4 said that GM was the first amateur to try to get a place on a F1 pit team.
He's a fully trained and time served HGV mechanic, so hardly a novice at that sort of stuff.
It was a pity that in their trailers for the show, Channel 4 said that GM was the first amateur to try to get a place on a F1 pit team.
He's a fully trained and time served HGV mechanic, so hardly a novice at that sort of stuff.
The show was mostly about his becoming quick enough at putting his tyre onto one corner of an F1 car though. There really wasn't a lot of HGV experience required, just the ability to lift a tyre onto a big wheel nut without taking more than about 0.5 seconds about it.
He was, as he always is, full of enthusiasm. He's a person who gets all the joy he needs from life as long as he has a cup of tea, some spanners, and something mechanical to fettle.
He was, as he always is, full of enthusiasm. He's a person who gets all the joy he needs from life as long as he has a cup of tea, some spanners, and something mechanical to fettle.
Grandpa Larrington was a mechanic on the originals.Full-time job by the sound of it.
His programmes should carry sub-titles. Or, at the very least, he should have an interpreter alongside him – which would be funny!!!
His programmes should carry sub-titles. Or, at the very least, he should have an interpreter alongside him – which would be funny!!!
His programmes should carry sub-titles. Or, at the very least, he should have an interpreter alongside him – which would be funny!!!
Eh?