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Has Guy Martin Quit Road Racing? The Full Story…So Far…

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Guy Martin looking focused on the 2017 Honda Fireblade - Practice Session 30th May 2017 - Isle of Man TT Races
Guy Martin looking focused on the 2017 Honda Fireblade – Practice Session 30th May 2017 – Isle of Man TT Races

The internet has went crazy today reporting on Guy Martin retiring from Road Racing.  As a Guy Martin fan, that is of course devastating news, and I honestly believe that most pure fans of road racing will also agree that Guy was / is good for the sport and its profile.  However following an ‘exclusive interview’ with MCN it looks like his road racing days are over…

With huge publicity surrounding the partnership of John McGuiness and Guy Martin on the new Honda FireBlade things looked perfect for the 2017 season.

Then it all started to unwind.  A poor Tandragee 100 started the season with Guy crashing out on his first lap, followed by an uneventful Cookstown 100 and North West 200 (at the same time as losing team mate John McGuinness to a horrific crash) which led us to the Isle of Man.  After the ‘box of neutrals’ incident Honda withdrew from the rest of the event.  Guy went onto a second place in the TTZero with Team Mugen, his team mate Bruce Anstey taking the win in that event.

Then the press release came that Honda and Guy would not be participating in the Ulster Grand Prix, a circuit that has brought Guy great success as well as proving almost deadly in 2015.

At this point I think most of us thought the writing on the wall was now here.

Guy Martin’s Road Racing days are over.

Explaining his decision to call it a day in an exclusive interview with MCN’s Matt Wildee, Guy said: “Racing’s been good to me, but I’m bored of it. You spend the early part of the year preparing for the season – testing, racing, talking about it, and then doing it all over again. It’s like Groundhog Day. It’s time to stop.” 

Or are they?

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Faugheen 50 : Sunday 23rd July 2017 Race Results & Timings

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The Sunday Race Schedule for the 2017 Faugheen 50 is certainly a full one :

2017 Faugheen 50 Sunday Race Schedule
2017 Faugheen 50 Sunday Race Schedule

And here is how the days events panned out :

Click ‘Read More’ for all the results of every race including the break down by class, but if you can’t wait that long then the top three of the Grand Final (the winner being almost 16 seconds ahead of the second placed rider and over a full 24 seconds ahead of 4th place) were…

No sorry I can’t do it, there are no spoilers here… Read on for the full results and timing breakdowns :

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Isle of Man Southern 100 2017 Results : Thursday 13th July 2017

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Southern 100 Logo
Southern 100 Logo

Full results from the 2017 Isle of Man Southern 100 Races – Thursday 13th July 2017 Session.  The results are formatted in the following manner :

Race No | Rider | Motorcycle | Laps Completed | Total Time | Average Speed for Race | Fastest Lap | Average Speed of Fastest Lap

For the results from Tusday 11th July 2107 Click Here

For the results from Wednesday 12th July 2017 Click Here

Souther 100 Champion Dean Harrison
Southern 100 Champion Dean Harrison

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Isle of Man Southern 100 2017 Results : Wednesday 12th July 2017

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Southern 100 Logo
Southern 100 Logo

Full results from the 2017 Isle of Man Southern 100 Races – Wednesday 12th July 2017 Session.  The results are formatted in the following manner :

Race No | Rider | Motorcycle | Laps Completed | Total Time | Average Speed for Race | Fastest Lap | Average Speed of Fastest Lap

For the results from Tuesday 11th July 2107 Click Here

(Image removed at request of ‘Thomas Anderson’)

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Isle of Man Southern 100 2017 Results : Tuesday 11th July 2017

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Southern 100 Logo
Southern 100 Logo

 

Full results from the 2017 Isle of Man Southern 100 Races – Tuesday 11th July 2017 Session.  The results are formatted in the following manner :

Race No | Rider | Motorcycle | Laps Completed | Total Time | Average Speed for Race | Fastest Lap | Average Speed of Fastest Lap

 

 

Billtown Souther 100 Circuit
Billtown Souther 100 Circuit

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Terlicko: Horst Saiger takes Superbike Success

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Horst Saiger sums up his weekend rather perfectly on his twitter account : 

Horst Saiger took a hat trick of victories at the 2017 Terlicko Road Races, winning the feature Superbike race on his IXS /Swiss Moto ZX-10RR Kawasaki with a massive 22 seconds to spare in the 10 lap race. 
Terlicko – Superbike Race Results:

  1. Horst Saiger
  2. Petr Biciste
  3. Marek Cerveny
  4. Pawel Szkopek
  5. Xavier Denis
  6. Tomas Borovka
  7. Jozef Jezovica
  8. Ales Nechvatal
  9. Martin Suchacek
  10. Robert Heitzinger
  11. Adi Wohlwend
  12. Marek Stibor
  13. Jiri Petrla
  14. Tomas Myslivecek
  15. Stefan Holz
  16. Vladimir Vlcek
  17. Martin Kowal
  18. Martin Reznicek
  19. Bronislav Stas
  20. Martin Klich
  21. Zdenek Sedlak
  22. Jiri Mika
Horst Saiger takes 3 at the 2017 Terlicko Road Races
Horst Saiger takes 3 at the 2017 Terlicko Road Races

2017 Skerries 100 Results – 01/07/2017

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Unfortunately I never made it to the 2017 Skerries 100, however that shouldnt stop you getting all the results… and it wont!

The event was dominated by Derek Shiels’ Cookstown Burrows Engineering Suzuki with a hat trick of big bike wins.  Derek McGee’s performance can’t be over looked either with a further three wins added to his tally and the seven laps of 2.9 miles Grand Final (on it’s second attempt, the first being halted by a red flag due to rain) went something like this :

Shiels started in pole and surged off to an impressive lead winning overall by 10 seconds, second place went to Derek McGee, followed by Michael Sweeney.  Newcomer Davey Todd was fourth, Davy Morgan fifth and Graham Kennedy in sixth.

Derek Shiels at the 2017 Skerries 100 on the Cookstown Burrows Engineering Suzuki
Derek Shiels at the 2017 Skerries 100 on the Cookstown Burrows Engineering Suzuki

Full 2017 Skerries Results :

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Product Review : R&G ShockTube

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I have been using a R&G Shocktube now for many years, firstly on my 2014 BMW F800GS Adventure, and now on my 2010 BMW R1200GS Adventure.  When I changed the bike late last year it was one of the first accessories I purchased, in fact having rode the bike home it didn’t go out onto road again until the front and rear shocks had received a coating of ACF-50 and were safely wrapped up in a ‘Shocktube.’

‘Why?’ I hear you ask…

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Motorcycle Winter Protection – ACF50, FS365 or WD40

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Before going any further please read the following post :

https://tbni.blog/2017/03/01/the-ultimate-motorcycle-protection-acf50-v-xcp-rust-blocker/

The above covers the ACF50 product and its current number one condenter for the title of ultimate motorcycle protectant XCP Professional Rust Blocker.

So if that post holds the ‘considered’ top two products, why then the need for this post?  Simply some people havent heard of the products above or have been fed mis-information on the use (or usefulness) of these others.

A few points from my own experience:

  1.  WD40 is brilliant, but not as a winter protection product for a motorcycle, please don’t be using it as that!
  2. FS365 is a good product for frequent use, and by frequent I mean after ever ride, which can be quite costly.
  3. Personally, I use ACF-50 and between applications or after a particularly wet ride out I then cold rinse the bike and give it a good liberal dose of FS365.  I don’t know how necessary that is or isn’t but me me it has left my bikes spotless, winter after winter.

So the this test then is ACF50 v Scott Oiler FS365 and WD40, it was carried out by F2MCLTD who have kindly allowed me to link to their original experiment and findings :

http://f2mcltd.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/winter-salt-protection-acf50-fs365-or.html

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