i am looking for a good picture of the great man. if anyone can recommend any biogs/books that have any images in, or equally if there are any on the internet it would be a super super super help!!!
thanks.
See if you can track down footage of his last ever "race" It's the Goodwood festival jobby where the grid was old bikes, lots of ex pro racers and everyone giving it some beans. The man's a legend and a racer to the very end.
My mum bought my uncle a great picture of him last yr, I'll ask her where from when I speak to her later!
thanks lads. i saw the goodwood footage a while back, i'll have to revisit it.
ideally i'm after the footage/photos of him in his prime.
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I had the dubious honour of getting In Barry Sheene's way on two occasions during the 80s when Silverstone's pit lane was open to the general public during unofficial practice. Have a few pics and paintings of the great man but unfortunately it'll be Monday before I can dig them out. Happy to email them if you're interested.
The 70's & 80's British motorcycling legend
yes very interested rocketman, that would be great!!! i painted him a while back, i'll try dig out the image in a bit.
I sat and talked to him for quite a while at the Dutch TT in 85 ish
he was doing a piece for Aussie TV about Wayne Gardener and we were there as guests of Honda
I knew his dad Franco from when he supplied bikes and bits around the race paddocks so it was an easy to introduce myself to him
really nice guy and funny too
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Old enough to have been at his last actual race, photo's somewhere in a box... 1984 I think?
http://www.oliversmount.com/?f=year&i=1981&specificyear=1984&month=September
Them were the days - Yamaha RD250E, Doc Martins, paddock jacket and pin-strip jeans
Racer, entertainer, hyper. A photograph without a fag hanging out of his mouth should be dismissed as not representative.
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3:40 a classic Sheene moment
Chaire de poule à la fin!
Please upload your paintings 🙂 I would love to see them
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i painted these back in 2007.
Are your paintings for sale?
🙂 thanks for uploading your paintings they are great. Anymore anyone?
i still have kenny, alas i sold barry last year! i also did a another little painting of agostini for a client last year...
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I like them Rolkin, do you have a website?
Hello everybody, my name is Gerard Kampen and i live in Holland.
Glad to see that there are people looking for Barry Sheene info.
I run the Official Barry Sheene Dedication Website here in Holland.
www.barrysheene.nl
Lots of news, story's and photo's, you are welcome to visit my website, if you have any questions, just email me.
If you like you can leave a message in the guestbook.
Cheers.
Gerard
Thanks for the link. I really like your website layout, unless it's my phone the page with the tunnocks was not loading properly. You have some really nice work, thanks for sharing it. I'm currently working on a graphite commission for an advert. I have not painted for a while, please share your Barry Sheene painting once it's done.
Sure no problem, let me know when it is ready.
Just a few from the archives:
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The last one is a reasonably hi-res painting. Also have a few pics of Sheene's DAF Suzuki in the pits from 81/82.
1972 - works 250 Yamaha [YZ635 IIRC]
The circuit is Imatra, I think
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From here
http://www.mucchioselvaggio.net/il%20mucchio/Campioni%20 d'altri%20tempi/barry_sheen.htm
cheers guys much appreciated.
it took an age but i managed to find a couple of close up photos focusing on this eyes. i'll post the final painting when it's done.