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Barry Sheene

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Endless motorbike talk can and does bore me.


— Barry Sheene


#does #endless #me #motorbike #talk

I decided there and then to sue the bastards.


— Barry Sheene


#decided #i #sue #then #there and then

I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.


— Barry Sheene


#classic #i #may #more #race

I thought: This is not racing, it's a suicide mission.


— Barry Sheene


#mission #racing #suicide #thought

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.


— Barry Sheene


#could #counting #everything #i #isle

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.


— Barry Sheene


#carry #door #get #go #had

It wasn't about the money. I just wanted them to admit it was their fault.


— Barry Sheene


#admit #fault #i #just #money

It's not as if there's a noise problem, because they use the same circuits as Formula One.


— Barry Sheene


#circuits #formula #formula one #noise #problem

Nobody within motorcycling has or deserves any respect.


— Barry Sheene


#deserves #nobody #respect #within

They were ridiculous times. After I won my world championship in 1976, I went to Japan.


— Barry Sheene


#championship #i #japan #ridiculous #times






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Early life
Sheene was born in London the second child of parents Frank (resident engineer at the Royal College of Surgeons) and Iris. In later years Sheene became involved in historic motorcycle racing. Barry Stephen Frank Sheene MBE (11 September 1950 – 10 March 2003) was a British World Champion Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.

Barry Stephen Frank Sheene MBE (11 September 1950 – 10 March 2003) was a British World Champion Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.

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