Vroom unveiling

[Pomp1]

Like tradition every year Marlboro, Ferrari and Ducati organize this event at Madonna di Campiglio in the Italian alps.
Ducati started by introducing the riders today. Video here (sorry, only in italian) (http://video.gazzetta.it/motori-ferrari-ducati-stagione-via/d870ba96-1ce9-11e0-be3f-00144f02aabc)
SO far no bike but finally we've got a picture of Rossi in Rosso..
http://www.reportmotori.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/tuta-rossi-ducat.jpg
http://www.reportmotori.it/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/tuta-rossi-ducati-2.jpg
Oh, and we got a (strangely) not-so-happy Mr. Haiden
http://static.blogo.it/motoblog/rossi-in-tuta-ducati/rossiducati_05.jpg
Bike will be unveiled tomorrow (Wednesday)
Anyone fancies a bit of snowboarding next January?

[J_Dub]

All he needs now is some green boots and he'll look like a traffic light!

[Kato]

That is BUTT ugly, ditch the yellow it looks $H!T

[Stafford]

That is BUTT ugly, ditch the yellow it looks $H!T

Unlike you to be that vocal Kato ;)

Oh and yes Vale, you're bum does look big in that.

[alan c]

Love the yellow :spin:

[buzzbomb]

Say it like it is Kato...:thumbsdown:

[Rally]

Should of kept my pink jacket, cause you ain't telling me that is red! Looks like a packet of Jelly Babies to me................. :(

Also, are they expecting a wet season with the leathers outside the boots now!

[J.P]

Rossi's suit looks stupid in all those colours, and I agree with Rally, looks weird with the leather over the boots, what's that called, Dainese 'Boot Cut' leathers ?

[Gadget]

Yellow and orange do not go well together.

[Nickj]

I never realised that he had such a deformed back

the bells... the bells...

[Pomp1]

That is BUTT ugly, ditch the yellow it looks $H!T

Knowing Rossi dress style (or lack of it) it could have been far worse..

[He11cat]

bleeuuuuughhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
I hate red and yellow together!!

The black and yellow kit he had was nice ( black and yellow goes, black and orange goes, red and yellow is vomit inducing).

Whats with the leg warmers??????? and the cod piece??

He always looks cheeky :)

[Pomp1]

Whats with the leg warmers??????? a

He had them for a good 3-4 seasons now, few top riders use them

[ladybird]

He had them for a good 3-4 seasons now, few top riders use them

How do they help, other than to keep the rain out of your boots?

(and he should grow his hair fuzzy again)

[He11cat]

I need my eyes tested .. as well as my head.
I didn't notice the orange last night either ... good grief its an explosion in a paint factory!

[Pomp1]

And a slideshow of the bike is here (http://www.gazzetta.it/gallery/Motomondiale/01-2011/Ducati_GP11/rossi-rosse-neve-712456010436.shtml#1)

[Scott1]

Man alive, I can see a few people not liking Rossi's bike at all, the man is a genius and I love the fact he's gone to Ducati, I've also got one of his AGV design lids but that flourescent colour on that bike is giving me a nervous twitch, it just doesn't go.

Do you think we'll see people copying the design and having flourescent seat covers and side panels on their Monsters!

[ladybird]

Do you think we'll see people copying the design and having flourescent seat covers and side panels on their Monsters!

Stafford has a luminous pink seat cover forone of his bikes :) maybe Rossi is copying him ...

[ladybird]

I'd like to have seen them riding those bikes on the snow, that is something some of us have had practice at this and last year.

[He11cat]

Kato has just ordered his yellow seat I fear ;)
cor dear the red and yellow don't work..

I like his lid mind.
Oh well at the end of the day if he wins some good races for Ducati best of luck to him.

[JerryT]

Do you think we'll see people copying the design and having flourescent seat covers and side panels on their Monsters!

Well not me... I may like bright colours - i.e. yellow bike - but even so, day-glo yellow and red? oooh Yikes!! :shocked:

Might even have to watch the MotoGp in B+W... with sunglasses on... :cool:

BTW, I think you mean 'fluorescent' (sorry, naturally pedantic etc...)

[He11cat]

Its giving me a migraine ....

[Pomp1]

I'd like to have seen them riding those bikes on the snow, that is something some of us have had practice at this and last year.

They did in '08..
ducani on the rocks.. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ9M3P_P9_U&feature=player_embedded)

[Pomp1]

BTW when you watch it on the TV it will be the "normal" red..

[Gordon H]

Red / yellow / black - errrrr... tasty.

The chap is obviously a closet Partick Thistle supporter with that colour scheme........

No doubt replica leathers with obligatary beer belly contouring will be spotted on Sunday ride outs this summer..........

[Capo]

The Hi Viz is so that the persuing riders can see how far he is in front. :D

[samieb]

To me it reminds me of the late 80's/ early 90's paint jobs, like those seen on the Mclaren's F1 cars of yester years. It appears there trying to use the old style Marlboro logo we used to see when Mclaren ran the cars in white/ an orangy red colour. Instead of the word 'Marlboro' name in the white section it now has Ducati instead, with a miniture white stripe running above. Admittedly Haydens bike looks the better of the 2, but the flourescent yellow is now part of Rossi's signature colours & life ain't it....

Maybe this is trying to assist the commentators when mentioning who is on track and who isn't ???
How many times do comentators get the rider wrong if he crashes ??

Anyway a new era in DUcati's history means another new paint job.... :D :p :thumbsup:

[utopia]

A bad case of "the doctor's new clothes", I think.
Would've been better running Rossi on a yellow/white/black bike ...everything else in both teams still red. (Burgess could have toyed with a yellow tie, or sunglasses, maybe).
Much better for merchandising too, and paves the way nicely for a lemon yellow 848 etc.
That colour mix is just nauseous.
Maybe its a tactic..Imagine the scene, towards the end of a long hot race, salt lake city for example, you're already feeling a bit queasy from heat exhaustion and you've got to look at THAT !!!!
It might just work on Casey.
The red is ok, though its never been my favourite colour in large doses.
And it does all look a bit 'Marlbrough'. Has done for years, actually.

[Char]

Looks like a souvenir doll that should be in a box- oh well at least you could stick pins in it , plus you could maybe buy some new outfits for it and mix and match them up a bit

[uksurfer]

oh well at least you could stick pins in it

hopefully not in his tyres!

more pics here http://www.visordown.com/motorcycle-racing-news-moto-gp/first-pics-ducati-desmosedici-gp11/16668.html

[Char]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4vq6XH2X7w

[gary tompkins]

Yellow/red combo is pants

[Funkatronic]

plain flipping uggg.....


is it me or does Haiden look like George Osbourne!!

[He11cat]

Some fringes on the leg warmers may improve things ??? just a thought :)

[ladybird]

They did in '08..
ducani on the rocks.. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ9M3P_P9_U&feature=player_embedded)

that's cheating, they had special tyres for it :)