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Yamaha’s Morocco ride
Source: Insidebikes | Carole Nash » Bike News - Thursday, 1st April 2010, 11:41 GMTRiders for Health and Yamaha joined their forces into organizing a rally raid, named ‘Ride for Life’ from Paris to Morocco. The raid will help to support health workers in Africa by giving them means of tough and reliable transport to perform their invaluable work and reach isolated communities in Africa. A group of Dakar veterans, journalists and five selected participants from the general public will take a fleet of Super Ténéré bikes and supporting vehicles from Paris to Lisbon to Morocco. At the end of the trip, Yamaha and its network of partners will donate to Riders for Health five Super Ténérés and essential replacement parts, which will ensures 3 years of perfect operation. Riders for Health has chosen to operate these five Super Ténérés in the Eastern province of Zambia. These motorcycles will help to improve the delivery of health care in rural communities by ensuring the efficient detection and diagnosis of HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and other diseases. To date Riders for Health have mobilized five couriers who will help to deliver blood samples by motorcycle. In 2010, Riders will be mobilising another five professional sample couriers as well as 15 health workers who will provide primary health care to the local population. Ride for Life starts in Paris, on May 4th 2010 where Yamaha Dakar legends will kick off the ride. They’ll be taking the Super Ténérés as far as Lisbon, Portugal passing by Toulouse and Madrid. From Lisbon on it’s up to some privileged customers to take over. Together with Helder Rodriguez - 4th in the 2010 Dakar Rally - they will be riding from the Portuguese capital down to the North African coast. The raid will be going through the extraordinary, craggy beauty of the Atlas Mountains to the final destination: the exotic city of Marrakech. It’s here that on May 17th Yamaha will donate these 5 Super Ténéré bikes to the humanitarian organization Riders for Health. “Yamaha is proud to support the invaluable work performed by Riders for Health. We hope our Super Ténéré bikes can contribute to make a difference to many hundreds of people who are currently without access to the medication they need to stay healthy,” said Arno Sunnotel, Yamaha Motor Europe’s Division Manager. Read article
Ellison denies WSS switch
Source: Insidebikes | Carole Nash - Wednesday, 18th November 2009, 14:41 GMTNormal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0cm; mso-para-margin-right:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0cm; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} James Ellison has confirmed that he remains committed to the British Superbike Championship, despite accepting an invitation to test for the Yamaha World Supersport team in Portimao. Ellison, who was in Portugal to support former AMA rival Ben Spies, was offered the opportunity to test the Yamaha R6 left vacant by Cal Crutchlow’s switch to World Superbikes and clocked times which, whilst not officially released, were described as “competitive with the top five race times”. But Ellison has dismissed suggestions that the test is an indication that he is to leave British Superbikes, with Yamaha still yet to confirm a WSS rider for 2010. “At the moment my plan is to stay with GSE Racing in BSB next season as I have a two year contract with the team, but we are waiting on a title sponsor,” he told the BSB website. “I have done my first year with GSE and finished second so for 2010 the aim is to come back with them and have a real stab at the title.” Ellison, who came second in the BSB championship to teammate Leon Camier, did however relish the opportunity to ride the World Championship winning bike. “It was awesome and a great opportunity for me to test Cal’s bike today,” added. “I had about an hour on track and in that time I was able to run the pace that the top five had at the weekend on race distance tyres without making any changes to Cal’s settings. “The last time I rode a Supersport bike was in 2002 and it has changed since then, it has loads more power now and you can wrestle it around and be more physical than you can on the Superbike. It is much lighter and reacts more to the movement and you have to keep it revving all the time, but it has some mega electronics and a great chassis. It was just a fantastic package. “I had gone to Portugal to watch the racing and see Ben (Spies); we raced together in AMA and we are good mates so I wanted to go and see him finish the job and catch up with a few people. I spoke to Laurens Klein Koerkamp who is the Yamaha Motor Europe Racing Manager over the weekend, as I knew him from before, and team manager Wilco Zeelenberg to see if I could have a test on the Supersport bike. “They had planned to test a couple of riders and I didn’t find out for definite until the end of the weekend, so I called and checked it was OK with Colin [Wright], GSE Racing team manager] and that is how it all happened. I borrowed Cal’s kit - his leathers, gloves and boots as he is the same size as me; it gave the photographers something to look out for as we were almost identical!” Read article
Spies confirms two year Yamaha deal for WSB and MotoGP
Source: MCN Sport - Friday, 4th September 2009, 18:31 GMTWSB sensation Ben Spies has ended months of speculation over his future by signing a two year deal with Yamaha Motor Europe. His new contract is expected to see him remain in WSB in 2010 before switching to MotoGP in... Read article
Ben Spies to stay with Yamaha in 2010 and 2011
Source: Motogp.com - Friday, 4th September 2009, 16:31 GMTYamaha Motor Company., Ltd and Yamaha Motor Europe N.V. have announced that an agreement has been concluded with Ben Spies for his participation with Yamaha for 2010 and 2011. Read article
