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    Quote Originally Posted by dangerous View Post
    Fark... some of you guys need ya heads banged togeather...

    Sheene was born in London, England the second child of parents Frank (resident engineer at the Royal College of Surgeons) and Iris. His early years were spent in Queens Square, Holborn.

    He became the British 125cc champion aged just 20, and finished second in the World Championships for that class a year later. A spectacular crash at the Daytona 200 in 1975 threatened to end his career, breaking his left thigh, right arm, collarbone and two ribs, yet he recovered and was racing again seven weeks afterwards.

    In 1976 he won five 500cc Grands Prix, bringing him the World Championship, a feat he repeated the following year with six wins.

    After the 1979 season, he left the Suzuki works team, believing that he was receiving inferior equipment to his team-mates. He shifted to a privateer Yamaha machine, but soon started receiving works equipment.

    In 1981, arch rival, American "King" Kenny Roberts was the reigning World 500cc Champion for the third time, and Barry Sheene, now on a competitive Yamaha, was determined to regain the championship. Ironically, Sheene and Roberts battled all season and let Suzuki riders Marco Lucchinelli of Italy and American Randy Mamola beat them for the top two spots. Roberts finished third and Sheene fourth for the 1981 championship.

    A 1982 crash largely ended Sheene as a title threat, and he retired in 1984.

    Sheene was a colourful, exuberant character who used his good looks, grin, and Cockney accent to good effect in self-promotion, and combined with an interest in business was one of the first riders to make large amounts of money from endorsements. He is credited with boosting the appeal of motorcycle racing into the realm of the mass marketing media. He also tried his hand as a TV show host and starred in the low-budget film Space Riders.

    He moved to Australia in the late 1980s in the hope of relieving some of the pain of injury-induced arthritis, moving to a property near the Gold Coast. He combined a property development business with a role as a commentator on motor sport, first at the Nine Network with the famously loud Darrell Eastlake, then moving with the TV coverage of the motorcycle Grand Prix series to Network Ten. Sheene's commentary style was idiosyncratic, to say the least. Never letting the audience wonder for a minute exactly what he thought of a rider, bike, or team, his biases were completely transparent. He combined insight into the skills of riding, and the vagaries of the professional circuit, with a penchant for the occasional double entendre delivered with a trademark grin.

    In later years, Sheene became involved in historic motorcycle racing, usually thrashing the awed amateurs behind him. A little-known piece of trivia is that Sheene invented the motorcycle back protector, with a prototype model he made himself out of old helmet visors, arranged so they could curve in one direction, but not the other. Sheene gave the prototype along with all rights to the Italian company Dainese - they and other companies have manufactured back protectors since then.

    He died of cancer, survived by his wife Stephanie and two children.



    Year Class Classification Machine Victories
    1971 50 cc 7th Kreidler 1
    1971 125cc 2nd Suzuki 3
    1974 500cc 6th Suzuki 0
    1975 500cc 6th Suzuki 2
    1976 500cc 1st Suzuki 5
    1977 500cc 1st Suzuki 6
    1978 500cc 2nd Suzuki 2
    1979 500cc 3rd Suzuki 3
    1981 500cc 4th Yamaha 1
    1982 500cc 5th Yamaha 0
    1984 500cc 6th Suzuki 0
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    Quote Originally Posted by 98tls View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by 98tls View Post
    No offence mate but it makes yours look like a really really slow blue berry
    Meh, the stripes bring it up to 5hp

    From dangerous' post, looks like a lengend indeed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dangerous View Post
    yeah man... and I meet him
    Awsome..from what ive read a top bloke and bit of a hard case..imagine what he could have done on a bike with todays suspenders etc
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    Quote Originally Posted by MidnightMike View Post
    Meh, the stripes bring it up to 5hp

    From dangerous' post, looks like a lengend indeed.
    Your bike looks sweet mate..enjoy it.
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    Here's the 2005 replica, looks a bit more authentic if you ask me.


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    I quite like the colours on the first one, definitely something different.

    I was wondering the other day what a GSXR would look like with the FXR paint scheme. Could be all right, I reckon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jimbo600 View Post
    Very nice, only in Pommy though apparently.

    And I don't want to hear "who's Barry Sheene?" from you younguns out there.
    chuck a few TUI stickers on there...and she'ld look mint!
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    Talking

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    Quote Originally Posted by more_fasterer View Post
    How did a V8 supercars commentator end up with a commemorative bike that's only sold in pomgolia??
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/moto...es/6943003.stm

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    Quote Originally Posted by jimbo600 View Post
    . . .
    And I don't want to hear "who's Barry Sheene?" from you younguns out there.
    Can just see the pommy cops rubbing their hands together with glee with the opportunity to grunt those famous retro lines as they pull someone over on one of these "Oow do you fink you arh then? - B. . . . . ."
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    Passengering on Qantas long haul recently I watched one of the in flight docos that was on Barry Sheene. He had become a bit of a legend in OZ. A good video, which I suspect you can buy, about one tenacious rider who did a lot for the image of motorcycle racing.
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    Bazza was indeed a true legend. When he fell out of favour with factory support, he still remained competitive on lesser bikes (ie Heron RG500 Suzuki).
    When I came off my RG500 in '86 I caught my left calf with a footpeg. Horrible wound, but I was proud as the eventual scar was shaped like the number 7. Barry Sheenes racing number!!


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    The 2005 model above looks ok..........as for the one Jimbo posted - stick to blue and white Mr Suzuki !!

    I'm yet to see a better replica than Repsol or Rothmans Hondas.
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    The young'uns may remember him for commentating Aussie V8 Supercars before his death, really lucky to survive those RG500's though, they used to sieze real instantly.

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