This custom-built Aprilia RS250 uses just the chassis of that motorcycle, while all other parts and components have been changed. The model was built throughout the last winter season and features RSV1000 rims, front fork components from a Yamaha R1, the fairing off a Honda 250GP and other handbuilt parts. See if you think it works in the high res picture.

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Since the Le Mans GP is actually called Monster Energy Grand Prix of France, their sponsored riders have to do a little promo work to earn their paycheck, but it isn’t hard when you have an army of Monster girls sitting in a hot tub keeping you company.

Here’s Valentino Rossi in a sit down chat with MotoGP’s Gavin Emmett, and the topics range from his paddock friends, his relationship with Ducati, his much talked about leg and shoulder injuries, the 1000cc’s and even if he’ll be racing beyond 2012.

Check out this other rockin’ highlight video from Monster Energy of the Le Man’s round, after the jump.

Continue reading: Valentino Rossi talks at Le Mans for Monster Energy (w/videos)

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While Yamaha’s World Superbike Team still has no title sponsor they have confirmed that Monster Energy will continue to be their partner and their “Official Energy Drink Supplier,” which means you’ll see Eugene Laverty and Marco Melandri holding and drinking from plastic bottles branded with the famous three scratch brand while in the garage and on the grid before the races start.

Both riders will sport Monster Energy branding on their helmets as well as on the YZF-R1 bikes.

Monster Energy is the number one energy drink by sales in the US and also sponsors Motocross, Supercross, Superbikes and MotoGP.

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While Marco Simoncelli has had a torrid off season in all six official testing sessions and the rookie MotoGP rider has yet to come to grips with the 2010 Honda RC212V (and he’s not the only one) he can at least he can be happy regarding his new sponsor, Monster Energy.

The Monster three-scratch “M” log already adorns Valentino Rossi’s lid and they are also Yamaha’s Tech3 squad’s main sponsor and they debuted their logo on Super Sic’s AGV helmet during the last tests in Qatar.

Source | bikeracing.it

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The Yamaha YZ450F and Yamaha YZ250F from the Monster Energy Motocross 2010 team have been revealed, showing the bikes and the livery that riders David Philippaerts, Gautier Paulin, Ken De Dycker, Loic Larrieu and Alessandro Lupino will use. The team has a couple of successful riders with 2008 world champion Philippaerts and 19-year-old Paulin last year gaining third in MX-2.

There is also the fortunate acquisition of Ken De Dycker in his first appearance for Yamaha in MX-1 after last year’s hard fought season, and Larrieu will hope to complete a good year after injuries last season. The Motocross season official kicks off at Sevlievo in Bulgaria in two months’ time, and the new Yamahas are looking awfully good in that livery.

Continue reading: Yamaha Motocross 2010 Monster energy team and bikes presented

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Valentino Rossi arrives for his media appointment on board his special edition Monster Energy Yamaha R1, midday in a rainy Paris. Riding his way down the Champs-Élysées before revving his bike to the max and performing a burn-out underneath the Eiffel Tower.

Valentino Rossi:

“It was quite dangerous and slippery out there with the rain, but I managed to do a little burn-out by the Eiffel Tower. I did try a little wheelie too, but I was out on the roads with the police so I couldn’t be too naughty! It’s my first time to the Eiffel Tower so I was pleased to do that, we all had some fun out there. I’m looking forward to this weekend at Le Mans now, and hope I can be celebrating my 99th Grand Prix victory there.”

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After noticing that Yamaha Tech 3 rider James Toseland was no longer sporting the Red Bull logo on his helmet during the night tests in Qatar, we should have expected that past rumors tying Monster Energy to Yamaha Tech 3 were about to come true.

Monster Energy has infact officially announced that they will become title sponsor of the Tech 3 Yamaha MotoGP team for at least the next two seasons and the team will be called Monster Yamaha Tech3 and that we’ll probably see the new livery during the IRTA tests at Jerez at the end of this month.

Official press release after the jump.

Continue reading: Monster Energy and Yamaha Tech 3 Deal Confirmed

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With yesterday’s official 2009 FIAT Yamaha launch we also saw Valentino Rossi’s helmet with the distinctive Monster Energy three-scratch “M” logo.

Monster and acid green ‘M’ is on the chin bar of the helmet and the decal is also the sides of the visor and has taken the place of Rossi’s last sponsor Keracoll. The Doctor’s leathers do not have the Monster logo on the arm as Keracoll did.

The Monster sponsorship should bring about 600,000 euros into Rossi’s pockets which is more or less about what Keracoll dished out last year to adorn Rossi’s helmet and a very small piece of his leathers.

Source | gpone

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