Guy martin autobiography 2014 gmc terrain

Updated: 19 November 2024

‘When you read the book it’s like me talking. What’s the posh word for big words? Anyway, there are none of those and it’s not mincing about either.'

From moped-crashing teenager to Junior Superstock contender, TT racer and TV star, to becoming one of the world’s leading road racers, we look back at Guy Martin’s autobiography, My Autobiography.

I am the son of a motorcycle racer, but I don’t see that as the main reason I started racing.

My dad’s influence obviously rubbed off on me in some ways.

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I’d see the bikes in the shed every day; I’d sit with Dad as he worked on them; and then I’d be aware of him going away to race them. Still, I think I was too young to be really infected by it all when he was racing. The almost constant contact with bikes – my dad’s, my and sister Sally’s little TY80, and the Kawasaki motocrosser I’d own later – all made me want a road bike as soon as I was 16 and legal to ride on t