Speed with Guy Martin

Daredevil Guy Martin has decided to challenge four extraordinary speed records. They involve hydroplaning, human powered flight, tobogganing and speed on a push bike. But first, he has to build the machines to do them. Guy recruits engineers, scientists and Olympic stars to help him tackle this superfast quest for glory and a place in the record books.

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S1 E1 - Britain's Fastest Cyclist
December 28, 2013
47min
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Guy attempts, with the help of slipstreaming, to break the British record for outright speed on a bicycle: an incredible 110mph. British Olympic track cyclist Laura Trott helps him get fit enough.
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S1 E2 - Hydroplaning Bike
January 4, 2014
47min
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Motorbike racer and mechanic Guy Martin tries to set the world record for riding a motorcycle on the surface of water. Will Newton's Third Law of Motion enable him to skim across Bala Lake?
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S1 E3 - Human Powered Aircraft
January 11, 2014
47min
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Guy is on a mission to do the seemingly impossible: fly using muscle power alone. He wants to build the world's fastest human powered aircraft - a plane without an engine that Guy will cycle.
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S1 E4 - World's Fastest Toboggan
January 18, 2014
47min
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Motorbike racer and mechanic Guy Martin sets out to break the record for the world's fastest gravity powered sled, plummeting down the new Pista Riberal speed ski slope in the Pyrenees.
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