Barry Sheene - a great man

I just want to tell you of a story that happened to me a few years back in 2002 concerning the late great Barry Sheene.

In the late 90s arai produced a Sheene nr3 replica which unfortunatley i could never afford to buy. Anyhow to cut a long story short i wrote to barry in late april 2002 to ask him if he knew of anywhere i could now purchase the helmet as my local arai stockists told me the helmet was no longer avaliable.

To my great surprise 2 weeks later a tnt delivery van arrived at my house and delivered me this parcel which when i opened i found inside one nr3 barry sheene helmet, to say i was stunned is an understatment.

It was addressed from the great man himself Mr Barry Sheene of gold coast queensland, australia and to top this off I attended barry’s last races at goodwood in september 2002, where not only did i get to thank barry personally for my helmet, but he also signed it for me twice – as did Steph his wife. And I had all this caught on camcorder as well for forever lasting happy memories.

Here was a nigh on 400 pound crash helmet that cost me the price of a postage stamp to australia which at the time cost me 42p. Obviously i still have my signed helmet and all the documentry proof of delivery and signiture and am very very proud of it and just wanted all mcn readers to know what a great great man Barry really was.

I believe you could count the number of celebrities on one hand today who would take the time trouble and effort to do something like Barry did for me.