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Sheene NNC Slide Suzuki 1976-7-8-9 004 We can only guess what it is that Barry Sheene and Graeme Crosby find so amusing about Randy Mamola’s knee sliders in this 1981 assembly area shot. As you can see from the DIY knee protection used by both Suzuki ace Crosby and Yamaha’s Sheene the knee slider generation was still in its infancy, but clearly American Mamola’s radical hang off style called for something a little more substantial. What the image does illustrate is that Grand Prix racing was still a whole lot of fun and while things got serious out on the track, in the paddock even the top riders could still enjoy a laugh and joke. Keywords: Barry Sheene, Colour, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, Nick Nicholls
Sheene NNC Slide Suzuki 1976-7-8-9 004 We can only guess what it is that Barry Sheene and Graeme Crosby find so amusing about Randy Mamola’s knee sliders in this 1981 assembly area shot. As you can see from the DIY knee protection used by both Suzuki ace Crosby and Yamaha’s Sheene the knee slider generation was still in its infancy, but clearly American Mamola’s radical hang off style called for something a little more substantial. What the image does illustrate is that Grand Prix racing was still a whole lot of fun and while things got serious out on the track, in the paddock even the top riders could still enjoy a laugh and joke. Keywords: Barry Sheene, Colour, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, Nick Nicholls


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We can only guess what it is that Barry Sheene

and Graeme Crosby find so amusing about Randy Mamola’s knee sliders in this 1981 assembly area shot. As you can see from the DIY knee protection used by both Suzuki ace Crosby and Yamaha’s Sheene the knee slider generation was still in its infancy, but clearly American Mamola’s radical hang off style called for something a little more substantial. What the image does illustrate is that Grand Prix racing was still a whole lot of fun and while things got serious out on the track, in the paddock even the top riders could still enjoy a laugh and joke.
Keywords: Barry Sheene, Colour, Mortons Archive, Mortons Media Group Ltd, Nick Nicholls
By Mortons Media Group Ltd collection Nick Nicholls collection ref Sheene NNC Slide Suzuki 1976-7-8-9 004; taken 2016-08-16 23:00:00 GMT; 14mb 6969x4983 pixels; comp 840x601