Classic Racer Archive
Benefits to social isolation?... There aren’t too many, but it did give us time to look through the archive here at Classic Racer and come up with these great images from Nick Nicholls and Mark Wernham’s collections. Old ‘pals’ Sheene and Read, the ‘new wave’ of Superbike stars in 2000, and a blast from a past master, the Mighty Mike, are this edition’s pictorial delights.
Once good friends, Barry Sheene and Phil Read fell out in a big way in 1975 – but they retained their respect for each other as riders. Read wanted MV to recruit Sheene as his team-mate in 1974 but switched to campaigning a private RG500 Suzuki himself in 1976.