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Dead men don't tell tales

Martin, Guy, 1981-2021
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Guy Martin famously often said, 'I love racing because it can kill you'. But he's a dad now, and he wants to see his daughter grow up to become a welder. The racing had to stop. But the thrill of an extreme, speed-based challenge still drives him, and his new mission is to hit a world-record-breaking 300mph on a motorbike he has built himself. Others have died trying. We also find him leaping out of a plane with a 1940s parachute, competing in a self-supported 750-mile bike-packing race through Arizona in 30 degree heat and channelling Steve McQueen in The Great Escape for a stunt jump over two barbed-wire fences. Speeding tractors (135mph) have replaced two wheels, and US truck racing is his new TT. All the above has been taken on with a dodgy ankle, which he keeps meaning to have replaced.
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Author:
Imprint:
London : Ebury Spotlight, 2021.
Collation:
314 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
9781529108927 (hbk)
Dewey class:
796.75092796.7'5'092920.GUY796.7509B.MAR920MAR920 MAR920.796.75
LC class:
GV1060
Local class:
B MAR796.75092 796.75
Language:
English
BRN:
2977426
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