Who your favourite motocycling rider?

[tintin40]

Barry Sheen

 

[Awkward Kid]

The Doc! Currently and previously awesome! This year hes been a pleasure to watch! Barry and Foggy! and lets not forget last seasons BSB hero... Shakey! Oh and Mcguinness for TT glory! :?

 

[lewis1641]

Road racer guy martin. He is a fantastic rider, owner of better sideburns than myself, completely unaware of the following he has, keen mountain biker and there's always a pot of tea on the go in his workshop. The tt will be his next year

 

[Dr S]

John Surtees for me. Absolutely class and the Augusta's were very nice looking. Also liked Barry Sheen who was a top bloke. I got to know him quite well in his later years when he went truck racing as my dad had some involvement with DAF trucks and actually painted his race truck
He was really mellow and always had plenty of time for me and our kid. I have some cool pics of him at one of our BBQs in the late 80's but wont show them because I have a terrible mullet on my head

Si

 

[Awkward Kid]

John Surtees for me. Absolutely class and the Augusta's were very nice looking. Also liked Barry Sheen who was a top bloke. I got to know him quite well in his later years when he went truck racing as my dad had some involvement with DAF trucks and actually painted his race truck
He was really mellow and always had plenty of time for me and our kid. I have some cool pics of him at one of our BBQs in the late 80's but wont show them because I have a terrible mullet on my head

Si

I remember seeing Barry at silverstone mid 80's in his DAF. Very cool! Had a signed pic from him from that day. Also remember supervan 1 and a rocket wheeling truck being there!
Cheers for the memory jog Si!

 

[Dr S]

John Surtees for me. Absolutely class and the Augusta's were very nice looking. Also liked Barry Sheen who was a top bloke. I got to know him quite well in his later years when he went truck racing as my dad had some involvement with DAF trucks and actually painted his race truck
He was really mellow and always had plenty of time for me and our kid. I have some cool pics of him at one of our BBQs in the late 80's but wont show them because I have a terrible mullet on my head

Si

I remember seeing Barry at silverstone mid 80's in his DAF. Very cool! Had a signed pic from him from that day. Also remember supervan 1 and a rocket wheeling truck being there!
Cheers for the memory jog Si!

Sure that wasn't Donnington?? I have a vague memory of that day and the three hours it took to get out of the car park. Truck racing was ace in the 80's- they were almost stock.
I remember another truck that dad prepped- It was a MAN belonging to Hepworth (the clay pipe people) and all they did was put the baldest set of tyres they could find on it, make a roll cage out of T45 and wind up the fuel pump to give more power and lots of smoke. The truck was three years old at the time with 290,000 miles on the clock and it went back to work the week after! the driver had the cage removed but the uprated pump stayed and he loved the extra performance.

Sorry for drifting off topic

Si

 

[guybe]

Some interesting posts apart from one

@MJN, N.Abe was a good rider and a hero in Japan, exciting to watch to, he won 3 races in 500cc, '96 Japan, '99 Brazil and '00 Japan, he was killed in road crash on his bike in Japan at '07, a sad loss.


@Grannygrinder :roll: 'Only rider i didn't like was Alex Crivielle, if he hadn't have had Doohan to tow him round he'd have done f*ck all' :roll:

the question was simply asking who is your favourite not who you hate? surely you should have know better when Doohan won 5 world championship in a row, it was only his team mate Criville that kept up with him, nobody else and it was good to watch them battle out, (no different what we are seeing with Rossi and Loronzo now) of course Doohan was better and won the most races. so you can do better than Criville from your armchair and a few beers

 

[Grannygrinder]

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I must be remembering it with 'Doohan' coloured glasses . I don't remember many battles, just a lot of last lap last corner do or die lunges from Alex that ocassionally worked :roll: Perhaps it wasn't like that at all but at the time I remember it being boring to the point of Formula 1.
Man to watch for the near future is Richard Cooper, remember the name.

 

[mr_ship]

Rossi and this fella......

 

[MJN]

Some interesting posts apart from one

@MJN, N.Abe was a good rider and a hero in Japan, exciting to watch to, he won 3 races in 500cc, '96 Japan, '99 Brazil and '00 Japan, he was killed in road crash on his bike in Japan at '07, a sad loss.


@Grannygrinder :roll: 'Only rider i didn't like was Alex Crivielle, if he hadn't have had Doohan to tow him round he'd have done f*ck all' :roll:

the question was simply asking who is your favourite not who you hate? surely you should have know better when Doohan won 5 world championship in a row, it was only his team mate Criville that kept up with him, nobody else and it was good to watch them battle out, (no different what we are seeing with Rossi and Loronzo now) of course Doohan was better and won the most races. so you can do better than Criville from your armchair and a few beers

Yeah sorry made a bit of a hash of that post,he never won at Motegi,it was Suzuka,it had been a long day and I meant to say last not only :x ,now edited