[visordown.com] - Guy Martin to miss the 2016 North West 200 and TT

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Guy Martin's new biography.


GUY Martin has used his new biography to confirm that he doesn’t intend to race in next year’s North West 200 and Isle of Man TT.

The new biography, published last week, is called called When You Dead, You Dead. In it, Martin says he wants to enter the 2745-mile long Tour Divide mountain bike race in America, which takes place at the same time as the TT. He says that in 2017 he will ‘maybe go back to the TT.’

While Martin’s decision to miss the 2016 TT might come as a shock to fans, his intention to miss the North West 200 will be less of a surprise. He’s made no effort to hide his dislike of the Northern Irish race, telling the BBC earlier this year, ‘It’s just riding round chicanes. I’m just bored to the back teeth. No interest, no interest. There’s nothing to the straights because they’re so fast you’re just flat out. My granny could ride it flat out.’

Guy Martin crashed out of the Dunrod 150 road race earlier this year and sustained severe injuries including several broken vertebrae and a broken sternum. He had been due to attempt to break the motorcycle land speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats in August.

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