Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Yamaha's GP stars Present Leno with ex-Bostrom R1 Superbike

Yamaha Jay Leno

Yamaha's GP stars Present Leno with ex-Bostrom R1 Superbike

Stars align for Leno's Garage

Yamaha Jay Leno
Cypress California, July 21, 2010 – The stars of the MotoGP World Championship made their way to California this week. They're headed for Laguna Seca, of course, but on Tuesday you could not have been blamed for thinking the race would be held in Burbank.
Yamaha Jay Leno With Motogp Stars
“Last Fall, Jay auctioned off a custom Star V-Max to benefit Bailey's Cafe, a charity that we both support,” said Bob Starr. “We were thrilled with the results of that auction; it benefitted a very worthy cause. But we realized that when he sold his V-Max, it left him without a Yamaha in the garage.”
Yamaha Jay Leno With Motogp Stars
The job of going through the ultra-trick R1 fell to Team Yamaha's Chuck Graves. Graves made a few concessions to making the bike 'streetable'; swapping the Magneti Marelli ECU for a YEC unit, and the race dash for one with a speedometer. But the engine internals, fork, swingarm and more are pure factory unobtanium. “This bike was built before we homologated parts,” said Graves, “so really, a lot of these components just aren't for sale, at any price.”