Guy Martin can't sit still. He has to keep pushing - both himself and
whatever machine he is piloting - to the extreme. He's a doer, not a
talker.
That applies whether Guy's competing in a self-supported 750-mile
mountain bike race across Arizona, or trying to reach 300mph in a
standing mile on the 800-horsepower motorbike he built in his shed. And
during his TV adventures, travelling through Japan, winning records for
the world's fastest tractor, re-creating the famous Steve McQueen Great
Escape jump, discovering the toil and sacrifice of the D-Day landings
and trying to cut the mustard as a Battle of Britain pilot.
Guy's become a dad now and he's hoping that one day his daughter will
grow up to be a better welder than he is. Oh, and he's still getting up
at 5am to work on trucks in for service or to be out on his tractor,
working the Lincolnshire land he's always called home.
This is Guy Martin's latest book, in his own words, on the last four
years of his life that make the rest of us look like we're in slow
motion.
We're here for a good time, not a long time. To Guy, if it's worth
doing, it's worth dying for.