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[bella]

I've mused over this many times, obviously No1 is sorted but how do you rank the rest.
No1 Hailwood
No2 ?
No3 ?
No4 ?
etc, etc down to No 10.

The top 5 would be fairly obvious but in what order, and just to tap into the knowledge of the elders I've stretched it out to top ten .

[chunder27]

1 Hailwood

2 Fogarty

3 Surtees

4 Dunlop Joey

5 Sheene

6 Geoff Duke

7 Read

8 Toseland

9 McGuinness

10 Steve Webster

[Russell Burrows]

1 Hailwood

2 Fogarty

3 Surtees

4 Dunlop Joey

5 Sheene

6 Geoff Duke

7 Read

8 Toseland

9 McGuinness

10 Steve Webster

1.  Duke, Hailwood, McIntyre, Hocking( think we should claim him) and, of course, Alan Barnett. 

2.  Minter, Sheene, Read, Surtees, Peter Williams.

[khsuzukitr500]

1. STANLEY HAILWOOD

2. MICHAEL HAILWOOD

3. BAILEY HAILWOOD

He was that good.

[TZ350H]

Very tricky this and I can only give a view on those who raced from 1966 onwards.  In my opinion the top 1 and 2 are SMB Hailwood and Sheene.  The other 8 are hard to sort and in no particualr order would include Ivy, Read, Herron, McKenzie, Peter Williams, John Williams, Ron Haslam and McWilliams.

[SMonty]

We've had lots of these rather silly threads on here before. It's simply not possible to rank / rate guys who never competed against each other.

 

Can we please get back to some proper nostalgia.

[fil2.8]

We've had lots of these rather silly threads on here before. It's simply not possible to rank / rate guys who never competed against each other.

 

Can we please get back to some proper nostalgia.

  

 

Well said