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Barry Steven Frank Sheene MBE (11 September 1950 – 10 March 2003) was a British professional motorcycle racer and television sports presenter. He competed in Grand Prix motorcycle racing between 1971 and 1984, most prominently as a member of the Suzuki factory racing team where he won two consecutive 500cc World Championships in 1976 and 1977. [1]
British motorcycling legend Barry Sheene has died from cancer. The twice-world motorcycling champion, famous for defying death on the track, passed away after suffering the disease for eight...
May 15, 2017 · Barry Sheene was one of the biggest sports stars of the Seventies, a household name who won two 500cc world motorcycle titles and crashed his way onto the evening news. Flamboyant,...
Jul 19, 2022 · Fifty years ago Barry Sheene stood on the verge of greatness, with his first factory Suzuki contract just a few months away. During the final phase of his 14-year Grand Prix career few people knew Sheene better than chassis-builders Lester and Steve Harris, who equipped Sheene’s GP bikes.
Mar 10, 2003 · Former World Motorcycling Champion Barry Sheene died on Monday, according to the Australian television station he worked for. Network Ten announced in its nightly bulletin that Sheene passed...
Mar 4, 2003 · Barry Sheene’s death has touched the world beyond motorcycling, because he was not just a motorcyclist. He was an icon, a legend; the grinning Cockney who came good against all the odds.
Aug 30, 2013 · Ten years after his death, those who knew former world champion Barry Sheene share their memories of the motorcycling legend
Jul 7, 2014 · Barry Sheene was the cheeky Londoner who brought sex, drugs and rock and roll to motorcycle racing. We assess the 1976 and 1977 500cc World Champion's merits as a racer. Alamy. Author. Mat Oxley. Ten years after losing his life to cancer, Barry Sheene remains a sporting icon and a totem of the fast and loose 1970s.
Mar 11, 2003 · Barry Sheene, a two-time world road-racing motorcycle champion whose colorful personality often overshadowed his racing prowess, died Monday in a hospital in Gold Coast, Australia.
Mar 10, 2020 · “Barry Sheene was a superhero,” that’s how F1 World Champion Damon Hill describes him to The Sportsman. “An adventure action hero”. Damon was an absolute motorcycle nut and used to have pictures of Barry Sheene and Giacomo Agostini on his walls as an 11-year-old.
