I love the fact that Guy has become famous just because he's so lovable....his personality and the things he says have captured everyone's heart....love ya mate.

Guy Martin is a global treasure. We need to keep him well so when the aliens come there is a worthy representative of our species to greet them.

@mrstamp5121

4 жыл бұрын

Quality comment love it

@shaungbm3861

4 жыл бұрын

But what if they learn to understand his language but then they don't understand the rest of us??

@andrewbozhozr

4 жыл бұрын

@@shaungbm3861 ahahahhaha! :D

Guy Martin......as mad as a box of frogs, but such a likeable character

@upthereds4939

4 жыл бұрын

@Seymour Butts he should climb a chimney for his next stunt! if theres any left!!

@fredorico41

4 жыл бұрын

Seymour Butts Yeah mate, I love Fred’s videos on steam and his ones travelling on the road in his traction engine 👍 greetings from Australia 🇦🇺

@Outland9000

4 жыл бұрын

So... Is a box of frogs particularly mad? 🤔

@notamotorbikemechanic

4 жыл бұрын

Have you ever met a sane box of frog?.... I rest my case 😂

@Outland9000

4 жыл бұрын

@@notamotorbikemechanic Come to think of it.... No I haven't.

If you're going to interview someone probably best if you learn to shut up and not try to constantly finish their sentences for them.

@gt4rca

4 жыл бұрын

99% of people are terrible listeners.

@jdjones4825

4 жыл бұрын

What was that mate.....

@ThePastaManCan

4 жыл бұрын

was gonna say the same thing :L

@craigwall9536

4 жыл бұрын

No shit. Especially if your mic is louder. It's just asinine.

@Mctrippzy

4 жыл бұрын

cragonaut itgot on my nerves too. Ignorant as you get, twat.

Bud Ekins and Steve McQueen Legends and so is Guy Martin.

Bloody fantastic thanks to guy for doing this and triumph for building up the choice of brilliant bikes to choose from and putting the great in great Britain 😁👍

The story of this Bike was shared with me from my former neighbor and good friend Derek Rickman together with other stories of when Steve McQueen was in the UK with the Rickman Brothers .... Good video

Saw the programme on TV on Sunday. Absolutely fantastic, the best thing on TV for years. I agree with Dave xjs - Guy Martin - Legend.

Nice bike enjoyed the video Looking forward to sunday

Steve McQueen is a legend. Guy Martin is a living legend. Anyone who can brave the IOM TT, let alone almost win it, is a legend. I wonder what is happening with the bike Land Speed Record Triumph were trying to break a few years back with Guy in the hot seat, the Triumph website sort of says "watch this space" ...

@bigtony4829

4 жыл бұрын

I think he managed 17 podium positions in the TT

This is awesome, a very big bike to do this will be something to see!

Such a good guy and this bike is a beauty! Love it!

Beautiful bikes. The 1200 (specially in this guise) is a stunning bike.

As ever, a great video. Nice work guys

Having ridden this bike at the off road experience at the NEC last month, I'm glad they managed to take 20kg out of it, as my over-riding impression of it was: 'it's a big ol' girl'! 😆

New interviewing technique, ask questions then answer them for him!

@memsybabe

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly. Just let the man finish...

@kimfucku8074

4 жыл бұрын

My wife does the same. I call it "Wifecomplete".

Love the look of that Triumph! The pipes sounded badass too! I might have to see if I can squeeze one in the garage somewhere. Sweet!

Great escape was the greatest film ever. motorcycle looks nice ✊

Time to release a limited run of these special build scramblers. Sign me up.

@atastefortheroad4475

4 жыл бұрын

It would make sense and the setup does look nice.

@general_pinochet

4 жыл бұрын

They should put guy Martin logo on them

@michaelwhitley2081

4 жыл бұрын

And me...

@glenpiro313

4 жыл бұрын

Yup

@dogshmog

4 жыл бұрын

Definitely going to pick one up, I just need to get rid of my S1000R first.

Cool bikes, both of them. And the matching driver of course!

was doing the same jump on a honda xl 250 over 8ft fence up the bank at jarmans fields in 83.epic days.big up guy for doing the stunt

What a great rider Guy is, he's the perfect rider for this event, he's also got a working Spitfire Merlin engine which he likes to start up from time to time.

I love my scrambler 1200 xe. Cant wait to see the jump

I remember watching the Great Escape with my Dad when I was a kid. He was fairly quiet throughout the film until Steve Mcqueen got on the motor bike and he shouted "That's not a Zundapp - it's a Triumph !!" he then picked up the newspaper and never looked at the telly screen until it had finished !!

That looks sweet as and sounds even better

Awesome 😎🤙🏼

This would have been infinitely more appealing had Guy Martin been doing the jump on the original and proper Triumph. This is a bit like a battle of Britain memorial flight where a Tempest is used instead of a Spitfire or Hurricane.

Love guy Martin 😄

Guy, ridin every day...Broom, broom, brooom, brooom., brooom.. Love your style guy, so genuine...

I am happy to hear Guy keep refering to it as a FILM and not a movie. I will be Tuning in on Sunday. Cant wait.

That is one nice bike!

I could keep listening to Guy even just for his accent.

@the.communist

4 жыл бұрын

Listening to him is like listening to a chinese or even a lithuanian

@richardtaylor9483

4 жыл бұрын

Grimsby accent,I,ve got that as well😉

Forgive me, but I can't help being sad that such a historic bike has been so completely restored that all signs of age and traces of use have been erased. I like old things to be preserved as they are, complete with their history written in their patina.

@cloudmaker

4 жыл бұрын

I would normally agree with you but on seeing this on C4 it sounded like the bike was almost done to death rounding up cows and spent a lot of years just being a field bike, for all we know it may have had very little of it's original patina left.

@martinlewis1015

4 жыл бұрын

Yes i watched ch4 about bike and it was bought some years after film and used on farm for some years until he died then a Triumph fan who collects bike bought it and repaired it back to how it would have been seen in film, to show it off in museum but also work but as it is worth 1M it’s not used

@2strokemxclassics

4 жыл бұрын

Some bikes need restored fully m8

@llh3025

4 жыл бұрын

I've never heard a bike guy use the word patina.

@craigwall9536

4 жыл бұрын

@Alex Bon Nope. Cast it in resin and sacrifice a few virgins to it every week or so.

Guy glamourises blue overalls..😂 .

That new Triumph is one sexy bike.

Guy isn’t mad, he’s a down to earth, meat n two veg bloke, I’ve read a few of his books and he comes over as a likeable bloke.

@chopperhehehe

4 жыл бұрын

I second this comment 👍👍👍😜🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦄😁✌️

Looks like a fun bike to ride!

We need some madness,Guy is the medicine.

awesome.... :-)

That’s funny I was watching that movie last week

I like how you think...thank you for sharing

Hollywood aside ...The great escape was real ..I work on a old RAF base in Nottinghamshire ...1943 was a Bloody year of losses for the squadron based at Langar, they lost 247 Airmen and ground crew that year. One of the members of 207 squadron, that was based there in 1943 was a an Airmen named Dennis oliver Street, He was in the real great escape,from stalag 3, after He escaped, he was captured by the gestapo and murdered at the side of the road.

anyone know what the rear tire on the triumph is?

I had an old army bombardier! Brilliant

Guy: "Excuse my language" Me: "No problem I didn't understand it anyway"

@edwardhasiak7961

4 жыл бұрын

The best way (at least for me )to listen to Guy Martin is to play the video at 3/4 speed. It really helps.

@RicardoSilva-qp4bb

4 жыл бұрын

LOL, I though I was the only one in need of subtitles to understand him :-)

...talking of Guy Martin , I really enjoyed the recent television series with Christopher Timothy and Peter Davidson tootling around the UK in a Morgan - and I thought how good it'd be to have a couple of characters on a pair of classic bikes doing the same thing and visiting different bike meets. Guy Martin would be an ideal choice....but who'd be best person to be on the other bike....?

@jamesmoloney6539

4 жыл бұрын

Steve'sHornet900! Foggy

@Dillyvl

4 жыл бұрын

ewan mc gregor. or james may

That is a seriously sweet bike

what exhaust please?

Bike looks mint.

should have still used a 50s triumph.

The greatest motorcycle jump in the history of movies. Steve mcqueen was awesome.

Awesome bike

9:50! ? Wait a minute right here... Steve McQueen was WAAY capable of jumping this itty bitty fence!! I know! I have seen him riding with Malcom Smith (my neighbor) and he was very good. Better Iam sure than Bud Ekins was at this sort of thing. McQueen did this stuff all the time.... He just did not let his studio executives and producers become aware of the risks he took for fun and racing! He easily COULD do this. He was NOT PERMITTED to do this jump

@barnabyg6808

4 жыл бұрын

Bobby Phillips buthurt fanboy alert, he isn’t saying McQueen wasn’t capable of doing the jump. It is a reference to the film where the bike was crashed into the 8ft fence because it didn’t get over it and how Guy hopes to jump over that size fence

Of course they had to choose a non jumper. Choosing a motocross rider to do it wouldn't have been all that spectacular. He'd just show up, jump and leave.

@pat4brown

4 жыл бұрын

Brem my guess is that ‘They’ are North One TV who suggested it might be something Guy would like to have a go at, and a programme they’d like to make. And Guy being up for a challenge, said Yes.

@bremCZ

4 жыл бұрын

@@pat4brown Yeah, exactly.

@lilorbielilorbie2496

4 жыл бұрын

Patricia Brown right after he said Here hold my Beer.

@silverstreak440

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly Brem . A moto cross rider doing the jump on 2 stroke 250 or 500 moto crosser or enduro bike would do it with ease . They have the right power to weight and suspension . As much as I like Triumph and that John Bloor invested in the Marque . That modern Triumph even shed of some some weight is still a lard- arse and way too tall in the saddle . Fair play to Guy Martin for always be up for a challenge .

@bremCZ

4 жыл бұрын

@@silverstreak440 A Motocross rider on any bike able to do it would do it with ease. For the purpose of entertainment you'd never choose one.

I loved the bike, but you could start a drinking game with every time the interviewer said "yeah".

@fullfunk

4 жыл бұрын

found it annoying also

talk about great jumps ,eddy kid , jump , in the movie he was in , across the demolshed bridge

I want the triumph being used by Guy! Those super long Ohlins....where’s that drool icon 🤤

Nice one.

Not a bike for short arses I’d say. Beautiful

Awesome machines back them just as they are now.Gone are the days when a Philips screwdriver was a necessary extra for sorting the timing issues. These days the Triumph Thruxton 1200cc is a work of engineering art, that would be appreciated by any art lover.

I need those chrome tank decals!

I remember watching that scene when I was a wee nipper and thinking 🤩ohh my god I want a motorbike🤩

@niallroofing9064

4 жыл бұрын

BuGGzLoVeR's Tech 😂 I was about to write the same comment 👊👌

@2strokemxclassics

4 жыл бұрын

Same lol used to love when it was on TV every xmas

Such a funny guy...lol 😂

That bike looks sick in BRG just needs the gold changing to silver or black to tie it all in, whats the betting they end up doing a special edition off the back of this. Funny i was watching bud ekins interview on this jump the other day he said he ended up going at it alot faster than he intended just to make sure he cleared it

Nicest pipes i've seen on a Hinkley Triumph twin...

Guy Martin is always the guy!

@gimmieliberty6514

4 жыл бұрын

Except when it comes to winning a TT

The motorcycle and sidecar chase is the only scene I remember.

😛09.53 Steve McQueen could have done it but the studios wouldn't let him!

The problem is that the bike you are going to be using is a modern day bike 4 times more power and every modern day gadget plus its half the weight of the original bike used on the movie its just a program showing someone jumping a bike

So they did the exact jump in the exact field exactly the same circumstances to replicate the film with a bike that's half the weight 50 years newer technology with about 3 times more power

@plance1

4 жыл бұрын

exactly. i could do the jump on a newer bike. were they going to recreate the jump on a bike similar to the old one? wimps

They could have removed 1 of the front brake rotors and calipers too ..

Did you see the bike that Bud Ekins did the jump on v the bike Guy did the jump on.

Could have been styled on either the DKW NZ350 like he says or more likely a BMW R71

Guys a lad.

Its still got the dings in the exhaust!

Superb John. What a wonderful insight into the story. Let's hope this great escape is the precursor for the proper version when we exit the EU ;-)

Hi there, great vid - thanks for the insight. Just a quick question, the guy you were talking to from Triumph, was that Miles Perkins?

@BikeWorldTVshow

4 жыл бұрын

Brian Ball Yes it is Brian.

@brianball2002

4 жыл бұрын

Hi there, thanks for getting back to me. I used to go to school with him. I knew he worked for Triumph but haven't spoken to him for probably 35 years!

i used to live next door to bud ekins shop he always had somthin cool going on in there !!!!!

how much this green bike?

The rumour is that McQueen was adamant that he was going to do the jump but the film makers and insurance company insisted that he be stopped and that it had to be the stuntman, So Bud Ekins was the man to do the famous jump. But McQueen and Ekins were best mates and arranged between themselves to swap at the last minute and that it is actually McQueen doing it on film but all the credits of the movie show Ekins as doing it.

Guy Martin's mouth has alot of torque

Bah...I did an 8 foot jump on my TDM850...picked the wrong place to run wide on a right hand bend. Flattened both rims on landing mind haha

I have one thing to say, FLEET FLEET FLEET!

Did they show him jumping already...I am confused....

Kudos for clarifying for everyone out there that Nazi Germans were in Poland, and something that is now polish land, wasn't quite like that back then.

More please

Which model Triumph did Evel Knievel use on the Caesar's Palace jump in which he broke nearly every bone in his body? Also, I thought a Scrambler bike was made by Ducati? I wouldn't mind owning a Triumph Daytona..... but I am thinking more about buying a Ducati 1198S soon.

@gimmieliberty6514

4 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure he used Harleys

@kennethjohnson6223

4 жыл бұрын

Ian Robinson Ceasars crash was 100% a Triumph. .. Harley XR750 from then on.....

so why didnt we see the jump?????

No it's really what ever you said it was- but was pretty cool as general action scene.

Well i seen a documentary on steve McQueen they reckon him and bud went back and McQueen did the jump and this was friends of McQueen saying this , but it was after they finished the filming , it was the insurance company wouldn’t let him do jump, while they were filming

Please send me the Triumph for rigorous testing.

So where is the jump???

@BikeWorldTVshow

4 жыл бұрын

Robert W. On TV in a few days.

cool

Ummmmmmm...anyone wanna tell us about that exhaust! 😍

@melin1969

4 жыл бұрын

normal exhaust just shortened a bit , google scrambler 1200 for al the info you need , bikes also been in james bond film

@oso_nomada

4 жыл бұрын

So the next Triumph Special edition is going to be a "Guy Martin Great Escape Scrambler 1200" :)

@pat4brown

4 жыл бұрын

KarlosH it could become famous. It’s in the new Bond movie too. auto.ndtv.com/news/triumph-tiger-900-scrambler-1200-to-feature-in-latest-james-bond-movie-2143791

Did Steve McQueen make that jump or a stunt double?

@waylonmccrae3546

4 жыл бұрын

Elkins made the jump ... McQueen wanted to do it , but contracts , liabilities , legalities etc. forbid him from doing it ...and he could've done it I'm sure with no problem , McQueen wasn't scared of anything , but was very calculated and precise when he did something on the edge .... Awesome , Real , Alpha , Male !! 😆

@tocboatman

4 жыл бұрын

@@waylonmccrae3546 If you watch the TV programme you'll see one of the actors who was there say that Steve McQueen did do the jump off camera.

@waylonmccrae3546

4 жыл бұрын

@@tocboatman Yessir , True ... I was referring to the actual celluloid film stunt put in the movie !! 😉

Would make more sense if the jump was done on the original bike.

@jasonjessup8078

4 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah , take a chance on completely destroying a piece of history by jumping the original bike. That's the stupidest idea anyone could come up with and it was you that come up with it👋👋👋👋👋

Bought my first bike from Ken Heanes in fleet

I speak fluent English but I need subtitles here.

Great video, but sound levels are all over the shop.

@BikeWorldTVshow

4 жыл бұрын

We know Neil, John was on his own and the filming was done for us.

@MrNeilfatmonkey

4 жыл бұрын

Bike World it’s a shame, but only a minor annoyance. It’s still a great video. Thanks.

@BikeWorldTVshow

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrNeilfatmonkey Glad you still liked it