Video Intermission – Restoring Barry Sheene’s ’76 Championship Bike

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A couple of days ago I shared a ’82 Suzuki RGB500, and commenter RoadRash left a note about a couple of videos that Suzuki had released detailing the restoration process of Barry Sheene’s XR14 RG500 – the bike he won the 1976 World Championship with. Get a cup of coffee out and give these two videos the next 10 minutes of your life:

The work was done by Nigel Everett (a former GP tech) and Martyn Ogborne – the latter of was Barry’s tech himself. Impressively, Ogborne was with Suzuki until just last year, retiring as Technical Manager for Suzuki Great Britain. Enjoy!

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