The Fiat Yamaha Team with Valentino Rossi have teamed up with Legambiente (an enviromental association) to auction off the tail section of his 2009 Yamaha M1 with the Forza Abruzzo stickers to finance a mobile laboratory for emergencies in the earthquake hit area.

“There’s a bit of Abruzzo in my ninth world title,” said Rossi “I’ve never forgotten the images of the earthquake and the immense tragedy that followed. This is a way to tell the people that we haven’t forgetten, and we want to support the reconstruction of the city of Aquila and the neighboring towns destroyed by the quake. It’s also an invitation to focus on young people, on students to help this land and its extraordinary people and get them up and running again. We’re going to be auctioning the two parts of the tail section of the Yamaha that I used in Qatar. In that race in April, to show my closeness to the population affected by the earthquake, I put the ‘Forza Abruzzo‘ sticker on my Yamaha.”

The tail section has been cut in two and both pieces have been autographed by the 9 times World Champion. If you’re interested in having a piece of a Yamaha GP bike head over to the Forza Abruzzo website and make your bid. Auction ends April 5th at 10am.

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This is big news for anyone based in England keen on getting their hands on some unique bikes. On June 30 Bonhams is putting on auction a single-owner motorcycle collection from an Austrian professor who is making way for a tractor collection instead (we know which we’d choose).

Included in the collection is a 1953 AJS 7R, a 1927 Böhmerland Reisemodell, a 1927 BMW R47, a 1933 Jawa Rumpal, a 1904 Laurent et Klement, a 1976 MV Agusta 750S America, a 1929 Neander P3, and a Vincent Black Shadow. There are over 300 bikes going up for auction so if you’re interested, get yourself over to the RAF museum in Hendon, London on June 30.

Via | Hellforleathermagazine.com

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