From the late 1990s, Barry Sheene became involved in historic motorcycle racing, competing at events such as the Philip Island Classic in Australia and at Donington Park, Scarborough and Goodwood in the UK. In 2002 he was invited back to what would be his final competitive outing on a motorcycle, the Goodwood Revival Meeting, held in September. Barry's mount that day was this machine, one of celebrated engineer/ tuner Fred Walmsley's modern Manx Norton re-creations.
The pair's relationship had begun back in 1999 when Barry had asked Fred to provide a machine for F1 World Champion Damon Hill to ride at the second running of the Goodwood Revival. Barry was riding someone else's Manx in practice, only for the bike to suffer a serious mechanical failure which Fred fixed; from then onwards Barry only ever rode machines supplied by Fred.
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