First look at ET3 on Yamaha

Graybeard 10/5/2021 12:13pm
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MX Guy wrote:
Eli on that bike with Gilly as his suspension guy sounds like titles to me
Do you know if he's on the KYB air forks like Dylan this outdoor season?
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Johnny Ringo 10/5/2021 12:13pm
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Is PPG a personal sponsor of his? I thought it was one of Kawasaki's sponsors, but he still has the logo on his jersey.
soggy wrote:
I believe it is I don’t remember seeing that logo on AC’s gear.
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Kind of an odd personal sponsor, IMO.
I want to say they’ve been a sponsor of his since the suzuki mini bike days
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Brad460 10/5/2021 12:16pm
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Would love to hear his honest first impressions of the bike compared to his KX…too bad they never give us that..
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xrclark433 10/5/2021 12:20pm
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Kind of an odd personal sponsor, IMO.
It’s different. But they’ve been with eli for awhile. I believe they sponsor the TLD team as well or they did. They provide the paint at tld too? I lived with a guy who was a helmet painter at TLD and remember him telling me this.
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-MAVERICK- 10/5/2021 1:05pm
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soggy wrote:
I believe it is I don’t remember seeing that logo on AC’s gear.
-MAVERICK- wrote:
Kind of an odd personal sponsor, IMO.
Johnny Ringo wrote:
I want to say they’ve been a sponsor of his since the suzuki mini bike days
Wow. Okay, that's a long time.

Would be interesting to know how that relationship came to be. Still odd considering it's a paint company.
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murph783 10/5/2021 1:27pm
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-MAVERICK- wrote:
Kind of an odd personal sponsor, IMO.
Johnny Ringo wrote:
I want to say they’ve been a sponsor of his since the suzuki mini bike days
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Wow. Okay, that's a long time.

Would be interesting to know how that relationship came to be. Still odd considering it's a paint company.
I think they sponsored a team or two back in the day? Motoworld yamaha comes to mind
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jeffro503 10/5/2021 1:29pm
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He's going to be a beast on that bike.
Period.
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Bingo. Check out the sweet fro on JB10
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face biter 10/5/2021 2:40pm
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I hope he likes his new dirt bike, that thing is sexy as dick!
It would look better if it were yellow and black, though.
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JOE_SPROCKETS#1 10/5/2021 2:48pm
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Congrats to Eli on the new ride. With the last name Tomac does Yamaha incorporate his fame to develop thier emtn bike? Thought I saw while back Yamaha had one or I could be mistaken?
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soggy 10/5/2021 3:00pm
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-MAVERICK- wrote:
Is PPG a personal sponsor of his? I thought it was one of Kawasaki's sponsors, but he still has the logo on his jersey.
soggy wrote:
I believe it is I don’t remember seeing that logo on AC’s gear.
-MAVERICK- wrote:
Kind of an odd personal sponsor, IMO.
Take it where you can get it, no?
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Johnny Ringo 10/5/2021 3:08pm
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Hot take: his starts get better with a cable clutch
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-MAVERICK- 10/5/2021 3:19pm
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soggy wrote:
Take it where you can get it, no?
Yeah, I didn't say it was bad, just odd. It's a paint company. Not exactly something you see guys in our sport promote on the regular.

Imagine him with a can of paint of the podium instead of a Monster Energy drink. Grinning
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MX Culture 10/5/2021 3:39pm
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Johnny Ringo wrote:
I want to say they’ve been a sponsor of his since the suzuki mini bike days
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Wow. Okay, that's a long time.

Would be interesting to know how that relationship came to be. Still odd considering it's a paint company.
murph783 wrote:
I think they sponsored a team or two back in the day? Motoworld yamaha comes to mind
And Motoworld Suzuki in 2005 and our Arenacross team in 2006-2007.....




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captmoto 10/5/2021 3:47pm
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x3. Black plastic is lame.
Thinkin' of gettin' me some.
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gregyou 10/5/2021 4:08pm
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Johnny Ringo wrote:
Hot take: his starts get better with a cable clutch
He was still terrible at starts with the cable clutch
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Sully 10/5/2021 4:33pm
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inthebadboycorner wrote:
The newer Yamaha,s always look dirty/ used, too dark.
Zycki11 wrote:
If they would go back to more blue plastic it would help. The black is played out and looks cheap
fullfloater wrote:
Agreed. It's a photoshoot and it looks like they gave him Ferrandis' practice bike.
First thing I thought when I watched the video Mav posted, was that the bars looked like the same ones Ferrandis runs. Who knows, there may be a new trend in handlebars on the horizon.

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dirtyharry 10/5/2021 4:55pm
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Johnny Ringo wrote:
Hot take: his starts get better with a cable clutch
Back to mid air clutch adjustments. If you know you know, he snapped on the cable clutch
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kibby 10/5/2021 5:07pm
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soggy wrote:
Take it where you can get it, no?
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Yeah, I didn't say it was bad, just odd. It's a paint company. Not exactly something you see guys in our sport promote on the regular...
Yeah, I didn't say it was bad, just odd. It's a paint company. Not exactly something you see guys in our sport promote on the regular.

Imagine him with a can of paint of the podium instead of a Monster Energy drink. Grinning
Key person at PPG is a Tomac family friend. PPG also supplies many race teams with free paint for the Race Trailer/Truck's paint jobs to help offset the costs of a $70,000+ paint job and in turn promote the paint brand on the rigs traveling the nation.
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RichieW13 10/5/2021 5:14pm
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Zycki11 wrote:
If they would go back to more blue plastic it would help. The black is played out and looks cheap
fullfloater wrote:
Agreed. It's a photoshoot and it looks like they gave him Ferrandis' practice bike.
Falcon wrote:
x3. Black plastic is lame.
What do we think about the way Star does the sideplate backgrounds?
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-MAVERICK- 10/5/2021 5:36pm
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What do we think about the way Star does the sideplate backgrounds?
It's a D'Cor Visual thing.

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DJAKE 10/5/2021 5:42pm
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It's a D'Cor Visual thing. [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2021/10/05/513326/s1200_148323171_279294733560881_5809657782229553432_n.jpg[/img]
It's a D'Cor Visual thing.

No, it's just what the teams want. Many of our designs have an actual background shape but both of these teams requested the background to mimic the number's edge.
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DJAKE wrote:
No, it's just what the teams want. Many of our designs have an actual background shape but both of these teams requested the background to mimic...
No, it's just what the teams want. Many of our designs have an actual background shape but both of these teams requested the background to mimic the number's edge.
Looks like shit, IMO.
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RichieW13 10/5/2021 5:55pm
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Looks like shit, IMO.
Sometimes it even makes it harder to identify the number.
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Heggo 10/5/2021 6:32pm
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MX Guy wrote:
Eli on that bike with Gilly as his suspension guy sounds like titles to me
He looks VERY comfortable
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Johnny Ringo 10/5/2021 7:41pm
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DJAKE wrote:
No, it's just what the teams want. Many of our designs have an actual background shape but both of these teams requested the background to mimic...
No, it's just what the teams want. Many of our designs have an actual background shape but both of these teams requested the background to mimic the number's edge.
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Looks like shit, IMO.
Everything alright at home Mav? You seem a little negative in this thread
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westeast 10/5/2021 8:14pm
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JOE_SPROCKETS#1 wrote:
Congrats to Eli on the new ride. With the last name Tomac does Yamaha incorporate his fame to develop thier emtn bike? Thought I saw while...
Congrats to Eli on the new ride. With the last name Tomac does Yamaha incorporate his fame to develop thier emtn bike? Thought I saw while back Yamaha had one or I could be mistaken?
Not sure if Yamaha produces a complete bike, but they definitely produce (or at least did as of a few years ago) e-bike motors.
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Moto76er 10/5/2021 8:25pm
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Eli looks fast as ever on the new blue machine . Hope he crushes it and he and Dylan go 1,2
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usp4u 10/5/2021 8:59pm
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Blue looks good on him! With the excitement of a new challenge and a bike that just proved it could win, Eli will be scary good...
Blue looks good on him! With the excitement of a new challenge and a bike that just proved it could win, Eli will be scary good in 22. We gotta go to work! 😂
Oh good. I was afraid you were going to say something completely opposite.🤪🤪🤪🤪

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