Fiat Sponsor replacement eludes Yamaha for 2011

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I think they look cool, especially like the bare carbon on the front. Has ben chosen that light blue detail (and gloves) to go with a particular theme or something? I like the colour, but i'm not sure it goes with the blue on the rest of the bike. De Rosa used to use the colour but i thought it was something to do with him people from Napoli.

From Neil Spaldings twitter.






I suppose they didn't know Yamaha were holding their press conference?

Tom said:

I think they look cool, especially like the bare carbon on the front. Has ben chosen that light blue detail (and gloves) to go with a particular theme or something? I like the colour, but i'm not sure it goes with the blue on the rest of the bike. De Rosa used to use the colour but i thought it was something to do with him people from Napoli.

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bikes look great, Money from Petronas obviously not enough to alter the colour scheme. Which only aides the appearance, not too good for the budget though.....wonder how big those green claw marks will end up getting?

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Crashes even with traction control, wheelie control, and significantly better rubber seem to me to be quite frequent and in 2010 devastating. What did we have - broken back, several shattered legs, shoulders and others. Hardly tame.



The further 500's drift into the past the more myths are created about them. The way some people talk they were the Devil

incarnate rather than a fully developed race bike that had been

in service for many more years then we will ever see a formula

remain unchanged in the future.

I would say that an 800cc MotoGP bike is comparatively easy to

ride but definitely more difficult to ride at the limit and hence the

reason no one but 4 guys seem to be able to do it.

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and vice versa, it is easy for people to forget the brutalnezz of the strokers as they fade away.....

I don't think anyone is saying that they are the Devil incarnate, but I'm sure Mick Doohan, Wayne Rainey, Kevin Schwantz and many others will testify to their very nasty nature.



And whilst theres no doubt the 800's are very hard to win on now my point is that this is for very different reasons than the 500 era.

Agile said:

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I'm not feeling those powder baby blue gloves. Are those left overs from his Rizla wildcards?





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Geez Pies is looking almost sickly thin....

nope Id say that baby blue is what he picked it matches the number plate, Spies is going Baby Blue on us, WTF! I know he did not have a kid.....so what gives with the .... blue?

ya know I was trying to get GM to sponsor Yamaha. I would be fine seeing a GM logo on that bike, hey its blue! LOL.

The bikes look cool but they look as if they dont even have a main sponser. They look like the test bikes rossi had in between camel yamaha and fiat yamaha.

What is the actual team name called now?

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I don't know about the sky blue gloves. Makes Spies look like he should be

washing dishes. Maybe they'll grow on me. The livery for the 2011 ride looks

like it should be on a street bike. Too dark overall.

Keshav said:

I don't know about the sky blue gloves. Makes Spies look like he should be

washing dishes. Maybe they'll grow on me. The livery for the 2011 ride looks

like it should be on a street bike. Too dark overall.

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Pieman is starting to look like Twiggy (Amy Whinehouse for the younger members) - whether those are Suzi-Rizla gloves, signs of coming out of the closet, for washing dishes or what - THEY ARE butt ugly. But compared with the f..k..g JL logo on Horegay's bike they're almost tasteful.