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Book Recommendation – Worms to Catch, Guy Martin

Now, you’re probably wondering why I’m

drawing your attention to a book that,

going by the cover is about popular

superbike racer Guy Martin planning a

fishing trip. Well, partly I thought it was

time for a departure from cycling

autobiographies… but in fact there’s a

strong cycling element.

Guy Martin is probably known to you for

his Speed TV series where the challenges

included:                                         ,

           ,

, World's Fastest Toboggan,

                           , Pike's Peak Hill

Climb, Hovercraft speed record and the

fastest Gravity Racer – the more alert

among you might have noticed a cycling

thread in there (hint: be  J ).

For the TV effort, he had coaching from some reasonably handy cyclists such
as Laura Trott (as-was) and Sir Chris Hoy. (I was slightly traumatised by
the photo of Sir Chris leg-pressing 630kg (1,386lbs or 99 stone…). This
book has some interesting insights into the world of the superbike racer –
not so far away from cycle-racing, but of course slightly faster.
The book covers his crash while in the lead at the 2015 Ulster Grand Prix the
world’s fastest racetrack. He needed invasive surgery to bolt his broken
spine and hand back together, and within days he decided he needed some
time away from road racing and a different kind of two-wheel challenge – he
set about breaking records on the world’s biggest Wall of Death (achieving
80mph without being rendered unconscious by the G-forces), the Tour Divide:
cycling 2,745 miles solo and within days he decided he needed some time
away from road racing and a different kind of two-wheel challenge – he set
about breaking records on the world’s biggest Wall of Death (achieving 80mph

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