Sad to hear that ex World 500cc Champion Barry Sheene lost his battle against cancer last night.
Top bloke...fantastic racer...and what a character
Steve

 

Used to live near me too

 

 

Posted this in Bikers forum.

Sad loss.

 

 

I wonder how many bikers over the years have been stopped for speeding by the police to be asked...."Whats your name Barry Sheene?"

 

Very Sad news. Mum and I were chatting about Barry on saturday morning (mum used to be into bike racing)

A truly great man, even more so when you consider all the nasty crashes he'd had.

 

I'm gutted, a true sportsman and hero,R.I.P. Barry.
Colin

 

He was my all time hero when I was a lad RIP

 

No. God that is so sad. God bless him and his family.

 

Very sad. One of my boyhood heros, too. Watched him race many times, from 125cc to multiple World Champ.

 

Yup boyhood hero of mine too......

I used to race around on my Raleigh Grifter thinking I was him.

RIP.......

 

Gutted. Used to have a huge poster of him on my wall as a lad

 

Truely sad, a boyhood hero and an inspiration to millions.
One of the last of the true sporting hero's, not a squeeky clean single dimensional character ;ike so many are now.

Thoughts to his wife and kids.

 

A very sad day. A great loss of a true sporting gentleman that made motorcycling in the UK a respectable hobby.

jhdee

 

 

Barry Sheene v Kenny Roberts - ahh the memories.

Life is too short ...

 

Very sad day for the sport and it's fans. RIP

 

I once owned his spare Daytona Beach number 2 bike (his first he crashed in the race if u remember and resulted in his famous "steel" legs ).... It put me on the road in business back in 1988.

Sad news

 

One of the best.

 

I can remember seeing him years ago as a kid, was a great character and i find it very sad British racing has not had a gp winner since 81.

An even greater shame just hearing carl fogarty having a pop even though he's dead!!! If foggy had half of sheenes charisma he'd be a damn sight more pleasant!

 

1968 125cc racing

1969 wins British 750cc championship

1970 wins British 750cc championship

1973 wins European 750cc championship

1976 wins 500cc world championship with SUZUKI

1977 wins 500cc world championship with SUZUKI

He was still riding to win on a Manx Norton at the Festival of Speed last year. Very sad news indeed

ub

 

Mellow Yellow -- you had his factory TR750? Wow, awesome machine ...

Very very sad, he seemed to be doing well against the cancer too. I remember him commentating on World of Sport in the 80s on the Yamaha LC championship ... his immortal comment was "this is really sorting the nutters from the headbangers"

 

Just want to add how sorry I feel as well at the bad news. he wont be forgotten for sure.

Les

 

I did indeed...in fact I'm looking at the photo's I took of it days before I sold it to a collector down South....lots of people went daft bidding for it....Japn....Sammy Millers museum etc...

Here you go...a photo of a photo, hope we can make it out !

 

R.I.P Barry, you will be sorely missed

 

Mellow -- that is one hot bike, I remember reading an article about them, the bottom end of the motors was pretty close to the GT750 Kettles but with a completely different cylinder block, with radically different porting.

I was lucky enough to see Barry at Oliver's Mount in '76, can't remember if he was on the TR or an RG, but the dice he had with Mick Grant on the H2R Kawa was awesome ... what a noise.