Seeley Suzukis
These machines when tested/raced were ridden by Stan Woods, Barry Sheene, Pat Mahoney, and Dave Crockford
These wonderful TR500s will be on full display at The Prescott Bike Festival incorporating KICKBACK, this June. Read about these Seeley Suzukis below by their proud owner.
The monocoque has a dedicated chapter written about it in Colin Seeley’s biography Book 2, ridden by Pat Mahoney, Barry Sheene, Stan Woods, Dave Crockford – the bike was stolen, found in a ditch returned to Colin S and kept in Colin’s loft for years – I purchased it from Colin Seeley, and it was restored by me – I sold/loaned it to Phil Morris and it was ridden years ago at Scarborough by Barry – I bought it back in a deal a few years ago and it is used at meetings on the Continent, rarely seen in the UK because of the noise although Peter Crew rode it last year at Donnington at the Classic GP.
The tubular bike was owned by Barry and Frank Sheene, ridden by Barry and eventually sold to an old friend of theirs, Dave Goddard who owns a motorcycle shop near Heathrow along with Barry’s Bultacos – when Barry was contracted to Suzuki Japan.
The bikes remained in D.G. ownership for many years until all of them were purchased by Steve Wheatman. Steve owns the largest collection of factory racing Suzuki’s in the world.
All the bikes were restored by Nigel Everett (ex Kawasaki factory mechanic) – the Bultacos were featured in a program hosted by the comedian Vic Reeves and I bought the bike from Steve last year following a display/parade at Pistons and Props, Northampton last September.
I have pics of Barry and Pat Mahoney riding the bikes, books, factory drawings and Seeley articles, to support the bikes as part of the display at KICKBACK in June.
You can see these fabulous bikes and hundreds more, on full display at Prescott Bike Festival + KICKBACK on 15-16th June 2019. On the Sunday 16th you can see them blasting UP THE HILL CLIMB!
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