‘The maddest a year of my life. The journey starts with an oddball competition up an American hill and ends beside me looking at myself out of hospital with a broken back. Again …’

As Guy Martin’s grandfather Voldemars frequently reminded him,’When you dead, you deceased.’ So, before it’s around, Guy Martin is definitely making the most of the time he’s got.

In recently alone, Guy has raced the Isle of Man TT and completed within the podium; bicycle trekked through India; competed in solo 24-hour bicycles races; flown a stunt plane; damaged a go-kart quickness record straight down a French mountain and dusted himself away after a dramatic crash in the Dunrod 150 Superbike race. And he’s completed all of this around his day time job as a truck mechanic.

But let Guy inform you of it himself: ‘This publication starts within a Transit, leads to a Transit, and in between I’ve raced a few pushbikes, raced several motorbikes and got a good few stories to let you know.’ Spot on.