{"id":1803467,"date":"2026-03-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1803467"},"modified":"2026-03-03T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T21:00:00","slug":"this-is-barry-sheenes-1977-world-championship-winning-suzuki-and-its-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1803467","title":{"rendered":"This is Barry Sheene\u2019s 1977 World Championship-winning Suzuki\u2026 and it\u2019s for sale"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As you may have noticed, we like to keep an eye on the world of high-end car auctions here at TG. Always good to have an idea of what you\u2019ll be buying when your lottery numbers come up, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

This week though, we\u2019ve been distracted by the world of high-end motorbike<\/em> auctions. Reason being, a particular two-wheel contraption has caught our eye \u2013 a Suzuki RG500 XR14.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Of course, this isn\u2019t just any XR14. It\u2019s the bike that the great Barry Sheene rode to victory in the 500cc World Championship in 1977, making it two titles on the trot for the Cockney.<\/p>\n

Bonhams, the auction house responsible for selling the bike at The International Classic MotorCycle Show in April, says that Sheene used two RG500s that title-winning year. This particular one is frame number 1201 and engine number RR 1202 RG500, and we\u2019re told that this is the bike that Sheene was riding when he crossed the finish line at the final race of the season at Silverstone. The other is still owned by Sheene\u2019s family.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Many of you will remember the Brit’s complete domination in 1977, winning six of the 11 rounds to take the title with 107 points \u2013 27 clear of the American Steve Baker on his Yamaha.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The victorious Suzuki isn\u2019t going to come cheap, though, especially since this is the first time in 40 years that it has come on the market. The current estimate is somewhere between \u00a3160,000 and \u00a3200,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As you may have noticed, we like to keep an eye on the world of high-end car auctions here at TG. Always good to have an idea of what you\u2019ll be buying when your lottery numbers come up, isn\u2019t it? This week though, we\u2019ve been distracted by the world of high-end motorbike auctions. Reason being, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,237],"class_list":["post-1803467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-topgear-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1803467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1803467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1803467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1803467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}