Barry Sheene Daytona 75 TV Documentary

[Suzukidave]

Youtube video .. you need hi speed internet ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=en ... Wmxus6kgMg" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[tz375]

Thanks Dave,

I had seen extracts of that but never the whole thing. Very interesting. He's still missed.

RIP Barry

[Craig380]

thanks for sharing this -- I will enjoy watching it again

[Suzukidave]

Thanks Dave,

I had seen extracts of that but never the whole thing. Very interesting. He's still missed.

RIP Barry

I really enjoyed the longer video also with the added bonus of getting to see and hear the 2 stroke race bikes very cool part where they are uncrateing the brand new TR's from Japan .

[Craig380]

Love the comment from Gene Romero at the end, responding to Kenny Roberts' comments: "This is one slowpoke who's real pleased to be taking home all the chips ..."

[tz375]

Or where Barry is undoing cylinder head nuts on his TR750 motor with his dad Franco and a mechanic. Or the change from Daytona to Cadwell Park. One larger than life and the other a throw back to an earlier time.

[Rhencullen]

Great link - Thanks

Or the change from Daytona to Cadwell Park. One larger than life and the other a throw back to an earlier time.

I must admit that Cadwell is not in the same league as Daytona, or even some British circuits like Donnington and Silverstone, but it is a very nice track nonetheless. Being my local stomping ground too, I've spent many an hour there, and met Barry in the pits in 1981



as well as undertaking my first (and only) trackday there recently with the GPZ900R OC

[Craig380]

Or where Barry is undoing cylinder head nuts on his TR750 motor with his dad Franco and a mechanic. Or the change from Daytona to Cadwell Park. One larger than life and the other a throw back to an earlier time.

Isn't it just. Mind you, that scrutineering line at Daytona ... some of those riders must've waited all day to get their bike passed.

There's a lovely shot in the race of Lansivouri coming out of the pit and f-l-y-i-n-g past a slower rider on the banking, Tepi must've been going 30+mph faster.

While present-day MotoGP riders have my total admiration and respect, doing 170+ on a bad-tempered TR, TZ or H2R with tyres, frames and brakes that can't even get close to handling the power is just something else entirely.

And who else got a sympathetic ache in their arm, looking at Gary Nixon's X-rays? Ouch.

[Suzukidave]

And who else got a sympathetic ache in their arm, looking at Gary Nixon's X-rays? Ouch.

You want to feel some pain .. check out Barry's legs after the Silverstone crash ( around 4:15 ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKKXZCp3tsc" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[titan performance]

How can you watch that youtube link and not feel a lump in your throat?
Not as fortunate as Rhencullen....I never got to meet Baz, but he was everyone's motorcycling hero in the day, and as I started my motorcycling career in the 70's, I count myself extremely priveleged to have seen him race many times, particularly at Brands Hatch in the Trans-Atlantic trophy series.
He probably did more than any other rider to raise the profile of motorcycle racing, and was the first biker to become a household name. It makes me wonder what all of those traffic cops would have used as their opening line when they stopped me, had Barry Sheene never existed. "Who do you think you are lad? ***** ******?

[Lorenzo]

And around minute 32, you can watch this man;

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