Jay Leno’s customised Yamaha V-Max sold at auction for 75,000 pounds, with proceeds going to charity. Above is the video of the bike, which was custom designed by Jeff Palhegyi in just two weeks. The V-Max is equipped with a 1679cc engine with 200 hp, and the custom features include Metzeler tyres, Russell Performance brakes and a Benny Flores paint job. See the video for a close look.

Source | MCN

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Jay Leno’s customised Star VMAX motorcycle will be auctioned at the Barrett-Jackson collector car auction, with proceeds going to the Bailey’s Café charity, a community program bringing art education to some of New York’s toughest neighbourhoods.

The auction will take place in Las Vegas, and the brand new VMAX should fetch a good price, having just been re-designed by custom bike builder Jeff Palhegyi. He had just one week to redesign it with the only instructions from Jay Leno being: “this bike’s going to be bought by an enthusiast, so make sure to keep it rideable.”

The bidding range is not known, though the charity is hoping to achieve their 100,000 dollar goal. We figure that the sale of the bike, along with a few other bits and pieces will probably achieve that.

Source | RoadRacingworld

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MV Agusta and Citroen have teamed up in Italy to put on auction this Citroen C2 Brutale for charity. All proceeds are to go to the reconstruction of student housing destroyed in the Italian town of Aquila after the terrible earthquake of April this year.

The Citroen C2 Brutale is an agressive version of the C2 with the same livery as the Brutale 1078 RR, designed specially by the style department of MV Agusta. The auction starts today on the charity section of e-Bay and concludes on September 14th.

Source | Motoblog

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New traffic regulations have been enacted in the Italian town of Tavullia. Tavullia is a small town, 30km from Rimini, the place to be if you like night life and a beach holiday, and 12 km from the International racetrack of Misano. Tavullia is also hometown for MotoGP Champion Valentino Rossi.

Valentino Rossi is like so many other riders and teams involved with charity. Yesterday he donated the fabulous amount of 650.000 euros to use for the renovation from the local cemetery in his hometown. To honour Valentino, they changed the speed limits from 50 km/h to 46 km/h, like Rossi’s magical bike number in MotoGP.

Source | telegraaf

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A Monster 696 giveaway is being held to benefit the International Rett Syndrome Foundation. According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Rett syndrome is a childhood neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by normal early development followed by loss of purposeful use of the hands, distinctive hand movements, slowed brain and head growth, gait abnormalities, seizures, and mental retardation. It affects females almost exclusively.

Tickets for the raffle (held in California) cost 25 USD and are limited to 500 total. Tickets are available at the Pro Italia online store or in the US, in Los Angeles and are available until October 24th. Pro Italia is an American online store in Southern California.

The motorcycling world often helps out in charity causes, as seen in Shane Byrne’s charity project to raise money for Mcmillan Cancer Support. The British Superbike Champion’s helmet was recently auctioned on ebay. Shane said: “I suffered a big loss in my life because of cancer. I hope that the money raised from the auction of this helmet can go some way, however big or small, towards helping others similarly affected whilst also highlighting the great work carried out by the people at Macmillan Cancer Support.”

It’s great to know that the motorcyclingworld and even riders are continuing these fund raising initiatives for charities in these difficult times.

Source | Pro Italia (thanks to Lowell Goss)

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The international company 3M is concerned about social projects, education and environment. For this reason,it’s started a new initiative in the Netherlands called “3M funds”. The fund has two major goals. Firstly to support charity work or projects by their own 3M personnel by giving 3M products to the project or work. And second to give the large amount of 50.000 euro for a project that has been nominated.

One of the project is the Dutch project called “racen tegen kanker” or in English “racing against cancer”. This project is based on helping family’s who have a child with cancer. One of their projects is the organisation of a four-day holiday for 50 families with their sick children in Germany. You can find more information about “racing against cancer” on their website or you could meet them at a racing event!

Source | 3M

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