Guy Martin

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Desert Island Discs · Guy Martin, presenter and former motorcycle racer · 28 Jun 2026 podcast

But I learned some off my dad.

I learned some off my dad.

Just very meticulous in the way that he does things.

Very much stuck in his ways.

But he was, yeah, just as a kid, when he was building his motorbikes, he'd let me sit on his bench in the shed while he was building his motorbikes.

I won't laugh to say anything.

I could sit on the shed, just watch him.

Yeah, just fascinated by how things work, what's going on.

And then that sort of evolved to going to work with him when I was a 12-year-old.

I've been about seven year old, started building lawnmower engines.

And then folks from around the village give me their old knackered lawnmowers to rebuild.

I just fascinated by taking them to bits and getting them running.

And then I got into this obsession with trying to blow them up.

I used to drill bits of the piston.

I used to fix it, get it running, get it running, and then try and take bits out of the engine until I get it to blow up.

Lightning bits and polishing bits and just, oh, I love destruction.

Just, yeah, I just love blowing stuff up.

Yeah, pushing stuff to the limit.

That's where it all started from.

I don't know if supportive would be, but just, it wouldn't be.

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