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It's about moving forward from today.

Whatever it takes to fix it is what has to happen.

That's better. That is faster.

Nobody needs to know. I'm racing this car at Silverstone.

It's two drivers. You wanna have a laugh?

I'd bloody love to.

After four rollercoaster years in the classic car restoration business...

That worked. I'm gonna claim I thought of everything.

...it seems I've finally cracked it.

Happy customer. That's a good feeling.

We've dragged our PR department...

You've got to get your asses over here damn quick.

...into the 21st century.

Our reach on that day was 317,000 people.

And as brand ambassador...

If you happen to have a car in the UK ever.

...I'm leading the charge.

Hey. This is brilliant.

At least that's what I thought...

If you've overpromised, you can't underdeliver.

...until my mum arrived.

They won't listen to me. They'll listen to me.

And it turns out that once again I'm in deep trouble.

I'm gonna have to do something. Gonna have to do something big.

Oh, my God.

(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)

(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

I am pretty excited about this opportunity

to go racing with Patrick Blakeney-Edwards, my mate.

There's a slight issue in that to race with him at his level,

I've gotta upgrade my racing licence,

but I've done a bit of reading and researching,

and to do that, I just need to do a little bit of marshalling and another race.

So, thinking about it, that's like a win-win.

So, I got to do a bit more racing to do some more racing.

Which is why I've dragged the MGB out of storage

and I'm taking it into the workshop to give it a once over and, this is good.

(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

Morning, mate.

How are you? I'm good. Good, good, good.

But, er, why is that here? That's a race car, innit?

I can see it's a race car. Why is it here?

Well, because I've been given the chance to do like,

a next level race with Patrick.

And to do it, I've got to get my licence upgraded.

I do that by doing some more races in that to get the signatures.

So, I brought this in to get the lads

just give a once over and make sure it's not gonna explode and it works.

So, you're thinking of banging that in the workshop? Yeah.

And using more workshop time.

And then they can come and they do what they love doing, be my workshop team.

They enjoy it on the day, being the team - I'm not surprised that they enjoy it.

But it's not making money. No.

But if they're being a race team, it's motivational, and...

I'm gonna be fair here.

I think under my watch, that's not happening.

Do you know what the Pomeroy trophy cost? No. That cost you ten grand.

I can't take the lads. No, it can't happen like that, Rich.

Okay. I'll think of another way. Okay. Probably already happening.

Okay. Good man. See you in a bit.

Reluctantly, you have to admit, Hadrian's probably right.

Erm, I can't be spending workshop resources on that.

It's not like we're awash with cash at the best of times.

But, there's an issue.

Erm, I've kind of already committed

to a race at Silverstone coming up very soon.

It's awkward. Bugger.

While I let that little problem percolate, I'm hoping a trip

up north to see an old mate called Ellis will help show Hadrian

I'm not a complete idiot when it comes to business.

So, I used to sell antique pine furniture and then deliver it in my little van.

And I worked alongside Ellis.

Okay. Such a small world, eh?

Ellis and I shared a love of bikes.

And now, nearly four decades on, he's launching a new boutique

British motorcycle brand and wants our help.

This is awesome. This is gonna be The Smallest Cog's

first collaboration with a manufacturer in a brand.

Yeah, it'd be. I can do with some social content.

Yeah. We're going to their big factory there.

No, no, no, no. It's not Honda.

Oh, there's motorcycles. You see, straightaway, I'm happy.

The prototype bikes have been designed and built in a home garage

with the help of business partner, Ian.

Hello. Hello. Ian.

Nice to see you. This is Lewis. Hiya. Nice to meet you, Lewis.

Mate. Hi, how're you? Nice to see you.

Nice to see you. This is Lewis. Hi.

Pleased to meet you. Pleased to meet you.

We'd the initial chat. I haven't seen one yet.

Can we've a look at the bike? Of course.

So, is this number one? It is number one. Genuinely? Yeah, yeah.

So, these guys, because they're mad,

at a time when the motorcycle market is... Struggling. Yeah.

...and the record of small independent manufacturers

succeeding is... Disastrous?

Erm, you're launching. Will you stop it now? (LAUGHTER)

I think this is great. Positivity. It's utterly brilliant.

I'd never have forecast this when we knew each other

30... Forty. ...it's not 40 years ago. Fifty.

Shut up, Ellis. It's some years ago that you'd be doing this.

So, what is it? What's the story?

Where's the engine come from? Engine's from Italy.

What capacity is it? Six hundred. Parallel twin? Single.

Single. And we just wanted to make something like the bikes

we used to ride when we were kids. We try to be as lean as possible.

How many are you hoping to make? If we got to the point

where we were making couple of hundred a year, it'd be great.

Right. Can I have a sit on your motorcycle?

You can. You can. (CLEARS THROAT)

Valet? Yeah.

You can be nice to me now. I was always scared of you when we worked together.

You were stronger than me.

All right. That's it.

Oh. It does sound quite naughty, doesn't it? Yeah.

I like the layout of it. It's quite off-road feeling.

So, what's this one in here?

So, this is the same engine, but different bodywork.

It's got a slightly more duck tail on it. It has.

So, it's more of a flat tracker-type style.

Quite cool. Right. So what?

When and how can the Smallest Cog help?

We're looking for someone to paint the tanks,

but we also need some suggestions for colours.

What have you got so far? So, we've got the blue, the black and the red.

How did you arrive at those? He looked at the Internet.

I was thinking about my felt tip. (LAUGHS)

So, blue, black and red. These incredible new colours

you discovered, we'll come up with some suggestions.

I'd love us to have a think about some sort of special finishes as well.

When are you hoping to be in production? This year. Right.

I can see it being quite a good launch with the Smallest Cog as well.

We've some sort of launch and get the press to see it.

Ellis, I think you might be able to shed some light on a particular photo.

I was doing a little bit of a reading.

When did you last read? Well, it had pictures in it.

Hold on.

Ready for this? Oh, that's not what I think it is.

Firstly, firstly, let's look at this.

(LAUGHTER) This was a long time ago.

Now there's a particular page.

You might be able to tell me about this van.

Well, firstly, that is an intact works van. Right.

And on Richard's commute, one particular bend there was a very old oak tree.

I went off the bend and hit the tree.

The van was totalled. The following week, a new van was delivered and history repeated.

No way. Yep. The following week, brand new van - Same tree. same tree, same bend.

I wasn't expecting that. Two consecutive weeks.

Oh, my God. That's crashing from day dot then. Yeah. Yeah.

So what's great is actually to see a one piece Renault van.

I'm taking that off you. Dunno where you got it.

I'm gonna go out and get one of those books. It's a sale!

(LAUGHTER)

This is the ultimate men in sheds. Not being rude to them

when I say that cos they wanna be in full production

and I think we're about ready to give this a go.

I sense fun. (LAUGHS)

(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

JAMIE: So, the guys at Mac could go to any body shop and they've decided to come to us.

So I really wanna show off what we can do and, hopefully, we'll get the contracts.

(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

(CARS RACING)

I'm not taking any pleasure in watching this video because I know there's

a race car crash coming, and I know it's my mate in the car,

I'm gonna watch it anyway. And here he comes. He's lost it.

Ooh! It went over. That's up!

That's in the wall.

Actually, he's more than a mate. He's a colleague, Marc, soundman.

I've worked with him for, measure in decades,

on Grand Tour and Top Gear.

He's a mad, keen racer in his classic Mini,

and, well, as I just saw, he bent it at an event.

But the good news is, he's brought it to me to get it mended.

Right. I'm gonna go and see the wreckage. Nice to see Marc as well.

Here he comes. All sound men have a van.

And there's his van. There will be a soldering iron in there,

lots of different types of tape. But more importantly, behind it, there's his little race car.

Look at it. All right, mate.

Hello, Richard. Isn't it lovely?

Well, it was a bit lovelier.

This is the problematic corner. Oh, it's bruised.

Hmm. What that is, is the wrong shape now.

Yes. Has it bent the shell?

It has bent the shell. If you open the door of truth here.

It bolts in at the back fine,

but here, it doesn't want to line up It's is definitely a bit wonky.

Mate, we've got to get it right. It's a shame, but it's all right.

I mean, it's been a rally car since the early 1990s.

It's got these lovely Monte Carlo stickers because this car won

the historic Monte Carlo in 2003.

All we need to do is get Matt to go over it because he likes

nothing more than getting things in the right shape. That is the job for him.

(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

If you think about it, it is an interesting time, Marc's Mini coming in

because, well, it's kind of proof

that there is work to be had from the racing world.

So, I am gonna take on board Hadrian's suggestion.

But he, he didn't say, "Don't do any more racing."

He specifically said, "Don't do any more racing using Cog resources and money and people."

See now, I think of a way around that.

My amazing contacts. (PHONE RINGING)

If his business becomes like a huge success, it's down to me.

LES (ON PHONE): Who's that? Hello, Les. How are you?

All right, Mayor, how's yourself? All right. How's the mayor?

Is it raining? Not as we speak.

If it's not, check you're in the right place, mate.

I've got a quick question. Yes.

Erm, how do you fancy a trip to Silverstone?

That sounds brilliant. You won't be standing around like spectating.

You'll be closer to the action.

Hang on. What do you mean, close to the action?

Ah, you see, I've piqued your interest, haven't I?

You'll have to bring the smaller of your farmers hammers. Yes. And perhaps a screwdriver.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll let you know. All right.

Bye. Bye-bye, bud.

Right. Let's see who else I can rope in.

Zog? How you doing?

(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

I've put two coats of colour on, I'm really happy with the outcome.

Anyone can do this. It's just standard straight colour.

We've got 10 tanks for me to have a play with, and I can literally do whatever I want.

So, that's where you've got to show your skill.

Ah, Jamie. Bit early for lunch, innit?

You wouldn't wanna eat this. That's not paint, is it?

No, this is urea. Urea? Yeah.

From what animal? Normally a pig.

So, that's a pot of pig pee? Basically, yeah, but it comes in a crystallised form.

So, what we do, we dissolve that in water,

reacts with the paint and cracks the paint.

Doesn't come out of the pig like that. No.

Yeah, that would be--

Have you done this before? No. You're taking a piss.

(BOTH LAUGHING) You are literally.

Dip that in. Get that nice and wet.

Oh, it's warm, pig pee. You don't mix this with the paint then?

No, no. This is going to recrystallise on the tank.

Is that the idea? Once it crystallises, you put a coat of black on it.

And we won't know what pattern we've got

until we've wiped off the crystals.

You can see slightly, but you won't get the proper effect until we put the black on. Plenty of pig pee.

(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

Right. Am I doing this? Yes, please.

It's a brilliant theory. It works on the Internet.

Now, let's have a go in a professional workshop situation.

Nurse!

I've just been told Hammond is putting his hands on a paint gun.

So content for the Mac Motorcycle is content for the workshop because Richard's on a gun.

Let's go.

(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

Just clean it off now. I need to take just the crystals... Yeah.

...leaving the silver to shine through from below.

Right, and then just gently... Very gently, yeah.

Oh, it sort of reveals itself.

That is the random effect you get from the crystals.

These look like ferns here. Look at that.

It is a natural effect. Crystals form naturally, sort of nature did that.

And then the last phase is we then paint

special type of paint over the top of the whole thing,

and where the silver is, it will shine through that paint.

That's exactly right.

And this is the Smallest Cog in action, eh?

Teamwork making the dreams work, ya.

(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

It's quite artistic, this process.

This is what I want us to do.

Do that bit more, add value, do something clever and a bit special.

No idea what they'll make of it. I really haven't.

And they're coming tomorrow. I'll have to explain how we did it.

That'd be interesting.

(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

Just got to be careful when we unveil it. Just put it there.

As I watch everybody getting ready

for the guys to arrive from Mac Motorcycles,

I'm just beginning to wonder, have I overdone it?

Cos Ian and Ellis are, they're actually quite conservative in their outlook.

They're not going crazy. They wanna set up a good functioning little motorcycle company.

And I've presented them with a variety of options, including

a petrol tank painted using pig pee.

(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

Gentlemen, hello. How are you?

We're in good shape. How about you? We've painted some tanks.

Got different stuff to show you. Shall we go have a look?

Yeah. Here we are.

Are we going down? If you get to me...

Oh. Oh, my goodness. A selection. Yeah, yeah.

That's why we've tried all sorts of stuff just to see how they come out.

Twin colour looks good. Twin look nice. Looks nice. Yeah.

We've got another experimental one that we've dressed the bike up with.

More? Yeah, I mean, you may not like it.

You may like it, I dunno, but it's just worth trying.

Oh, my goodness. Wow. Put it in a different outfit and it's a different bike, isn't it?

You know, I'd never have thought that colour produced that effect.

But there's one last thing. Come and have a look at this.

You'll have to come around because we went a bit berserk.

Wow! It's amazing, isn't it?

I want this one. (LAUGHTER)

I'm just wondering, can we try it on the bike?

We might all go up on the bike. No.

Shall we try it on? Yeah. Definitely.

Oh, my goodness. Look at that.

God, that looks cool. That's completely changed it again.

Cool. That does look reassuringly expensive. (LAUGHS)

That is good. We can do more. This is the first time we've tried

something that's really different, but it definitely works.

So, what we'd really like to do is take it somewhere where we can show it off.

Where do you wanna do it and when?

Really cool if we could do something like the TT.

(CHUCKLES) A lot of bikers there.

It is the biggest motorcycle event in the world, isn't it?

It's not a lads' trip. We could make into a lads' trip.

I'm totally up for that.

No, I can't do that.

Lewis. I refuse to knock on your door because it wouldn't be right.

Okay. So, quite exciting, Mac boys, they're thrilled.

Happy days. A really good idea's come out of it.

Okay. We wanna launch them at the Isle of Man TT.

Wow. I mean what better place.

And that's where, God help us, you come in because it's an event.

It's got a lot of people there.

I want to press, and social media.

How long have we got? Well, soon.

But the Internet, that is your thing.

(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

Okay. We've got this little mini in, the rear corner damage.

The sub-frame isn't lining up anymore.

Just in this corner, we can clearly see that

we're probably at least 10 mil out.

Best way to straighten it is obviously to strip it to a bare shell,

put this car on a jig and they can reverse the impact.

Erm, however, it's not concours car.

It's been raced through most of its life.

And there's no point in spending thousands of pounds,

so we're gonna try and do an alternative way of, kind of, fixing it.

(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

Matt's hoping his improvised contraption will do the same job as a frame jig,

which stops a car twisting during heavy repair work.

I'll feed this bar up to you, Isaac.

This looks like a seven-arm operation.

The bolted-on aluminium frame should prevent excessive movement when the 10-tonne hydraulic ram

pushes the body shell square again.

Well, that's the theory.

If it doesn't work, it was your idea. Was it?

Oh, yeah.

Right.

So, after looking at it earlier, it's got to be 8-mil further.

It might look a bit odd measuring Marc's Mini, but actually it's really important

because of the way a mini is built.

Up until the mini arrived, most cars had been built with,

like a separate chassis, and then a body bolted onto that.

Whatever body he wants, the two were separate.

The Mini was groundbreaking because it's a very early Monaco car.

Means there is no separate chassis. The body kind of is the chassis.

It relies on its shape for its strength.

Okay. You ready? Yeah. Let's go.

(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

I don't normally get nervous, but I'm quite nervous.

We move in? Yeah. Let's move in.

We've gone 3-mil so far.

It looks like it's pushing the back quite squarely.

I can see it moving the arch. And it's straightened this kink out from the outside.

That kink's virtually gone now.

You're 0.8 now, so you've gone 6-mil. Six-mil.

That's getting pretty tight now.

That's pretty good. Yeah.

Oh, yeah, we've got 7-mil, haven't we? Yeah.

What do you reckon? I'm quite happy with that.

That's about right. That's bang on.

Yeah, I think we're quite good there. That's straightened up.

Really happy with that, like super happy. It's actually paid off.

I'm quite relieved now. I need to relieve myself. (LAUGHS)

(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

So, we're pulling this dent out. Plan is to put your claw in there

and use the upright as tension to pull.

Kind of the method of straightening it when you don't have a jig.

Shall we get Richard to hold the car just in case it slides on the tyres?

That wouldn't be a bad shape.

Richard Hammond of the TV.

What? Can we use your assistance, please?

Huh. I wondered when you'd ask.

Right. This is primitive, isn't it? Yeah.

This is Marc, the soundman. He loves this Mini, and you've got it on the rack.

Are you ready? Yep.

Oh. Oh, it's moving. It is moving.

Slowly. Slowly.

That is amazing actually.

We might have to give this a bit of a tap from the inside as well.

The original logo for this company featured the legend Classic Car Craft.

Well...

That is not bad, is it?

That's come out really nicely, to be fair.

I enjoyed that, chaps. Thank you very much.

I'm gonna try to forget I ever saw it.

Good luck. Thank you. Thank you. Bye.

(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

Zog. Les. (INDISTINCT)

Richard sent me a message earlier about racing.

Yeah, about that.

He wants to go racing, but he doesn't want to cost the Cog any money, time.

So, he's brought along Les and Zog

to run this car, which probably not the people I'd pick.

You know the basics, Les. Yeah. Okay. I've got an idea.

So, what tyre pressure is he gonna be running? About 30?

Basically, when he goes out, you set him about 27. Yeah.

When he comes back in, they should be running about 30, hot.

Yeah. And then, if it's wet, have we got slicks?

No, this is all we got. We've got no spare. Anything else?

I mean, Richard did mention it overheats quite a bit.

We got to a point where it wasn't too bad.

If it does overheat, that's a Richard issue.

Got gauges that tell him if it's overheating,

we can back off and treat it right.

It flashes in there. Yeah.

The biggest thing you've got to remember, this is for Richard's safety more than anything. Right.

Okay? See the fire extinguisher? Yeah, yeah.

That pin has to be out every time he goes out. Right. Okay.

Cos if he has an accident and it catches fire,

this time he's got an extinguisher.

I'm not sure what they know about racing, so I'm a bit worried.

Because at the end of the day, that's my Dorris, and I don't want it getting hurt.

Main thing is, have fun, enjoy it. Will do. And bring my Dorris back in one piece.

Why are you calling it Dorris?

Its name was actually Doris Day, because it only lasts a day.

That's a belting art. (LAUGHING)

Now, have great fun. Good to see you. Thanks for your time.

I don't think I'd have been Richard's first choice for race mechanic to be fair.

So, he's obviously running out of friends.

(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

Lewis. Zog Ziegler.

How are you? Want some biscuit?

You don't keep triangular torso by eating biscuits in the middle of the day.

I mean, okay. So you're off to Silverstone?

Yes, and I'm gonna do your job.

Do you use social media? Erm...

I do have Instagram but I never make it work.

I put Instagram on and then I get a film that I'm - Okay, you have

social media. We go into search, the Smallest Cog, click on that. Boom!

That takes to the page. It's a nightmare, mate.

Donald Trump won't pop up like he often does.

He will, because that's who you follow.

Does he follow me? I don't think he's following you, but you do. Hope he doesn't.

All you need to do is explain what's happening with the day.

I can't. You've to turn it around. There's something you can do to get me on.

Know how to use a camera on your phone?

I used to have a brownie box. This is gonna be a nightmare. It is. I warned you.

I will probably ask some people to help.

I'll find someone much, much younger.

Cos the danger then is they think that, what's this old man talking to me for?

Smells of piss and cabbage.

That's what old people smell like apparently. Yup.

I have zero hope.

(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

It's race day and all I've got to do is finish today's race

and I'll be just one step closer to competing in the Motorsport Big Dog League

to get me over the line, I'll be relying heavily

on my stand-in support team, Les and Zog.

It's only what 7:30am for God's sake. It's not normal.

As well as boosting team morale, Zog's on social media duty.

And I'm Zog, I'm director of public relas -

My hair's a mess. I'm director of public relations normally,

but, er, I've been called in to do the social media things.

You're also helping me with mechanics.

Well, good luck with that, mate. And that ends the first part of social media.

Look at you. Don't you look good, man.

Slightly windswept. Windswept and interesting.

And Les is holding the machinery.

You were born to it. You were absolutely born to it, Zog. (LAUGHS)

Now we just need to upload, don't we?

Right. That's brilliant. That's our first bit of social media.

Cheers, Les. I couldn't do without you.

Chaps. Now, the mission, let's us not lose sight of it.

Yes. Whole point of this exercise is to get

signatures on my licence so I can race next level.

Let's get it warmed up. Get it warmed up.

(ENGINE REVVING)

I've to say this coming racing with a sort of stripped out crew with no real engineers,

just those two idiots. I'm loving it. (LAUGHS)

Suppose it's like having day out with your mates.

I couldn't find any, brought those two.

I've never been a mechanic. I've been to lots of motor races.

But you can fiddle. You can - Yeah, I can fiddle.

I don't know what I'm doing today, but I'm happy, so doesn't matter.

This is our racer. Hello. Ready to go

in his romper suit and dinky little booties.

Right, little MGB.

Let's both get through today.

Victory will be getting the signatures on my licence.

So, I need to move up a little.

That's all I gotta do.

(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING)

So, it's gonna be one more lap to the start line.

We form up a grid order.

We've got our numbers ready. So we know our stuff, mate.

Red lights are on and handbrake is off.

What the (BLEEP) I think my clutch is on the way out.

I had a bad start.

Just get it round, remember? It's all you've to do.

Here he is.

He's in the game.

Be nice to get past this other MGB.

(LAUGHS) I did.

Second from last.

Ah, Mini. I reckon I could probably get that. Yeah.

I'm through.

He's made another place. Marvellous.

This could be risky. If he runs wide, I'm gonna go inside him.

(LAUGHS) One of us is gonna have to concede...

...and it's him. (LAUGHS)

Wait a minute, Richard. Do not overdrive yourself and break the car!

I'm just trying to complete the race.

Oh shoot! I'm getting hot!

Oh, God.

It's flashing red now it's gone over a hundred.

Think I am just gonna back right off.

It doesn't look very fast.

It's starting to smell hot now. I'm gonna kill the car.

You're working yourself into a lather, Les.

This is stressful, sort of. I know, I can see.

Six minutes. So, that's like four laps.

Please, please make it.

Oh, this is agony.

One more lap. One more lap after this and I'll have done it.

That's what we like.

I've done it. I've done it.

I've done it. Thank God!

Yaaay! (CHEERING)

Never has last place been celebrated so finely.

Next stop. Wow.

Gentlemen, thank you. (LAUGHS)

My race team. Your team. Well done. (ALL LAUGH)

What a race team. It was really hard not to get carried away and blow the car up.

But if I hadn't finished it, I wouldn't get the signature I need.

So, okay, I nursed it.

I had a great time. Just wanted to do more.

Zog? Yes. One of the pit boards that you and Les put out said "Cog pint." Yes.

Yes. Can we do that bit? Yes, please.

Right. We'll pick this up later. Enough mechanical sympathy sodding.

(LAUGHS) I thought you'd never ask.

(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

Customer coming in. Marc, my soundman.

I've worked with about 25 years to get his racing Mini, and he's already here.

Hello, mate. Hello. Hello.

I like to see customers working on their own cars.

That's good. It's good, isn't? It looks fantastic.

Are you happy? Yes, I'm very happy.

The thing I'm particularly excited about is I tried

to bolt the suspension up after I crashed it, it didn't fit.

And now - It does. It's a great sign.

I'm very pleased. I was involved in straightening it.

I played, as I recall, a pretty pivotal role.

Pivotal. I heard it was pivotal. It was, it was largely down to me.

Probably that it... Worked. that it works.

The other thing about this car, of course, because it's a race car,

how would it be up against my little MGB?

This would be a hell lot faster, wouldn't it? Hmm, I dunno.

Come testing. Can we be quite clear until I get a lot better?

There's no way am I going up against you on a track

cos you've done this a lot and it'd be annoying.

I've done it a bit. I'll be very rude if you overtake me

I can accidentally... Oh, no! I know where to get it fixed.

You could take out an entire field of race cars. And bring it back.

And have six months' worth of work.

They've done a really nice job and treated it with love and care, which is the important thing.

It's a really special car to me. I've known it a very long time.

So, I'm really pleased what they've done.

(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

Today we are packing, ready to go to TT.

In 39 years of motorcycle riding, that's something I've never done.

I've never made it to possibly the most famous motorcycle race

and was the longest running in the world.

But we're not all going as tourists. This is work.

We've arranged a little bit of a launch event for Mac Motorcycles.

Obviously, I'm packing my bike kit because you can't go to the TT and not ride the bike.

The plan is to cross to the Isle of Man by sea

after meeting Ian and Ellis at the port.

(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

Jamie. A lot of bikes. Hell of a lot of bikes, yeah.

These are our people.

Aha! Hey! Gentlemen. Good morning.

You managed to navigate your way in. We did.

Erm, I am very excited about this whole mission.

(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

I didn't think there'd be this many people, to be honest. Obviously it's big, but it's absolutely crazy.

Let's check in and let the fun and serious work launching your new brand begin.

Take the right, mate. To the right.

This is pretty cool. (CHUCKLES)

That's a lot of bikes, and I love being around bikes and bikers, so I'm having a great day.

CAPTAIN: It is open forward of the vessel on deck seven. (INDISTINCT)

Right. So, we are at sea for a little while now. Yeah.

I think we've organised everything, let's go through it.

So, it's at the Paramount City Cafe.

We've got the bikes, journalists have been invited.

We'll get awareness of the brand, awareness of your bikes and have fun.

Yeah, with a bit of social bit to do to just say, "We're on our way."

Please come down to Paradise Cafe.

I won't say that because it's the wrong phrase.

Come to Paradise. Come to Paradise. That's all you need to say. (LAUGHS)

I really hope Lewis' social media expertise outweighs his attention to detail.

A lot is riding on this.

See what I did. Go on then. Right.

I'm on my way to the legendary TT motorcycle race.

But it's not just the racing to be excited about.

There is a launch.

What's amazing is there's thousands of bikes below deck,

but everyone's looking at my work, saying how good the paintwork is.

It just makes you proud to put my name to them bikes.

(HORN HONKS)

(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

What makes the Isle of Man TT so famous isn't just the fact

that it's the oldest motorcycle race event in the world.

It's also the most dangerous, with riders getting up to speeds

of over 200 miles an hour on a track consisting entirely of public roads.

This is motor cycling's hallowed ground.

Nearly 40,000 bikers make the annual pilgrimage.

(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

Can't believe we made it. Looks a bit like Blackpool, doesn't it?

We're officially launching the bikes tonight.

Getting the attention of these diehard biking aficionados

won't be easy, but Lewis assures me it's in hand.

I've had a look on the phone, and we've hit nearly 175,000 views

on the little video that Hammond did on the ferry,

spreading the word about our event this evening.

I was doing some schmoozing last night, and the TT have said

that we can lead the Legacy Lap.

So these four are gonna lead

the 1,000 motorbikes around the full 37.5 mile track.

Really? Yeah. Never.

That's quite a cool launch. Just say, just say that again.

We're gonna be at the front. Be at the front showing off the bikes. Cool.

I don't know the way.

I'm lucky. I've done a lot of stuff. I've never done this.

I mean, you can actually feel the ground shaking.

That's bent, I'm gonna stall, and then the whole thing. (LAUGHTER)

Everyone on their sides starts.

Oh, movement is happening, literally we're off.

Oh, that is incredible. It is.

Sometimes the queue behind is eight miles. I know. It's nuts.

That's just forever.

It's incredible. Miles and miles of bikes.

Every possible type you can imagine.

Is this the circuit? This is the circuit.

But it's stone walls and they pull, like, 100 and whatever along here.

An average of over 130 mile an hour. It's insanity.

There's manhole covers.

Oh, my God, that's tight.

Imagine that. I've got it wrong, I've hit a church.

(LAUGHING)

(HORNS HONKING)

They're actually waiting to cross the road. (LAUGHING)

Did I see the sign for 19 miles back there?

I don't know. Which means we're only halfway.

I need a wee already. Me too.

So, now we're gonna go up into the mountain.

Looks a bit misty up there.

It must feel suddenly very lonely when you're racing.

It's all busy, and then suddenly, big speeds coming up.

(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

(BIKES ROARING)

The Legacy Lap pays homage to the incredible bravery of the riders

who put their lives on the line to race at the TT.

(ENGINE ROARING)

(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)

I could get a little bit emotional about this.

I'm a biker. I have been all my life.

And look at this. We're coming down now to Ballacrye, which is a really famous turn.

Wow. (LAUGHS)

Right now it's quite graceful and flowing.

What it must be like at race pace, I cannot imagine.

I think we need to do more bikes at the Smallest Cog.

It's a fact.

The lads are on their way down from the circuit.

We're here at the Paramount City Cafe, and here they come.

I can see Jamie's flashing beacons leading the pack.

It's like the red arrows.

How does it feel having your bike running up and down at the TT?

This is the most extraordinary sensation.

It really is. It's cool, isn't it? Thirty six or whatever years ago,

working in your dad's antique pine place to here.

I'm speechless. Absolutely speechless.

Respect duly paid, time for business.

They all look lovely. They're fresh and ready. But what's the plan of action?

You've got a plan for If we get five or 50 people? Yes, we do. Yeah.

The power of social media.

Something tells me it's gonna be quite busy.

Feeling good. All my paintwork is on display,

which is really nice for guys to see. Bikes looking amazing.

There's a lot of people coming in now, and they're actually

stopping people at the door, so it's getting really busy, so it's quite quite good.

Lewis, try not to run over any of the attendees with the bike

they've come to see launched.

It's an amazing turnout. Can't believe people queuing outside. Standing room only.

Why don't we hide? (LAUGHS)

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Paramount City Coffeehouse

the official launch of Mac Motorcycles.

Thanks for coming. Thank you.

(APPLAUSE AND CHEERING)

This is their launch, and I want it to work for them

because he's an old mate. Also for the Smallest Cog, let's be honest.

We're all here because, I'm guessing, we all love bikes?

But few of us love bikes enough to set up our own mark.

But there are two guys here who did.

This is great. I mean, this is great for our social.

I mean, the videos I'm getting now are just gonna pop off online.

Setting up any kind of mark,

sounds like utter insanity.

Such a reaction. Couple of hundred people here, probably more.

Everyone giving us great compliments about the bike.

Thank you so much for coming along to see us. Enjoy the rest of the races and thanks for coming.

Thank you. (APPLAUSE)

How did that go? Just a massively positive reaction to the bike. Really? Yeah.

To the paintwork, the style, people loved it.

Pretty spectacular what you've done. Yeah, yeah.

We can literally paint any colour we want to, do whatever designs we wanted.

Out of this, I think we're gonna get a lot more work.

Tell us about this bike. So, this one is set up as a cafe racer.

I think seeing people love the bike and say how different it is,

we never thought that it would be this good.

People are looking at the bikes, and really, it's down to those two now.

It's their business. It's their creation.

Also, you know, how fabulous the paintwork is obviously

because if you're a specialist in painting vehicles,

and you get to design the look of a brand-new vehicle,

that's kind of cool. The better they do, the better the Smallest Cog does.

It's kind of a win-win-win.

Right. Time to inspect the newbies.

Chaps, you're starting on the condor, yeah?

I assume there's a comprehensive workshop manual.

No, there is nothing. This is the vet.

Come to tell me if my old pet's had it.

We're down to 3 mil on the bottom.

Where's it gone? Just wore away.

I have to do a day's marshalling.

I'm on the flag, so you go that side.

I want to be the flag.

I have control of the situation. And I can keep it up as long as I need to. Really?

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