Barry Sheene
Barry Sheene
Barry Steven Frank Sheene MBEwas a British World Champion Grand Prix motorcycle road racer, who remained as Britain's last champion in 1977 until Danny Kent in 2015...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMotorcycle Racer
Date of Birth11 September 1950
years two race
I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.
deserve
Nobody within motorcycling has or deserves any respect.
japan world ridiculous
They were ridiculous times. After I won my World Championship in 1976, I went to Japan.
suicide racing missions
I thought: This is not racing, it's a suicide mission.
carry taken within yard
I'd get to within a yard of that door you walk through and the thing would go mad. I used to carry an X-ray in my briefcase, to show them. But I had all the metal taken out.
stress swimming waiting
Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out and meet the bloody thing.
men world championship
I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the World Championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man.
rain advantage ifs
The advantage of the rain is that, if you have a quick bike, there's no advantage.
doe endless bores
Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.