Tim Blair

I have video of Kenny Roberts and Bazza having one of their duels at a british GP - there's a sequence of baz getting past kenny, both bikes a bit sideways as they come out of the corner, front wheels skipping the tarmac, riders low over the bikes....

and baz still has time to give kenny a long lingering look at his middle digit.

must go watch it now - thanks for the reminder

I used to run into Bazza while I was the Senior inspector at Brisbane Airport on a regular basis- Bazza was a true gent (and he signed my battered old Bell helmet as well). Barry found it most amusing that the quantity of metal in his lower limbs would set off overly sensitive metal detectors.
A funny bloke, and a real shame he croaked; also sad that towards the end he ventured off into the world of quackery.

I remember one of the first female sports journalists in the UK setting her cause back a decade or two when she described Sheene, much to his delight, I'm sure, as "the man with the throbbing power between his legs"...

I was just given Bazza's life story on the weekend as a birhday gift. I can't wait to get into it and get an insight into motorcycling's number one show-man. Damn shame he went so young but his "treatments", as Habib points out, were never going to help. He never even considered radiation therapy.