First look at ET3 on Yamaha

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usp4u 10/5/2021 9:20pm
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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.
As I guy affiliated with PPG, it not odd. You would shit if you saw how many 'odd' groups they back.

One the reasons I left BASF for them. Seriously.
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I would have loved to see some long sequence unedited shots. That video is sooo notchy it gave me a headache as I was trying to study. Even slow mow would have been acceptable. But the short frames and sped up had me constantly trying to catch up.
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Dear Yamaha,


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RichieW13 wrote:
What do we think about the way Star does the sideplate backgrounds?
For me it depends on the number and depends on the side of bike

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EnvyMedia 10/6/2021 12:19am
10/6/2021 12:19am
I’m so hyped for this! Woohoo
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RichieW13 wrote:
What do we think about the way Star does the sideplate backgrounds?
-MAVERICK- wrote:
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.

Looks like dog shit. Does not look factory, guess they do it to save weight / graphic company saves material. So many panels only have 1/3 to 1/2 of actually any graphic on it.
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RichieW13 wrote:
What do we think about the way Star does the sideplate backgrounds?
-MAVERICK- wrote:
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.

OT wrote:
Looks like dog shit. Does not look factory, guess they do it to save weight / graphic company saves material. So many panels only have 1/3...
Looks like dog shit. Does not look factory, guess they do it to save weight / graphic company saves material. So many panels only have 1/3 to 1/2 of actually any graphic on it.
Have you ever ridden bike? Boots will destroy numbers if they come too far forward so this will prevent that happening also. Looks great btw. We all dont want old steel frame bike with silver wheels.
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-MAVERICK- wrote:
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.

OT wrote:
Looks like dog shit. Does not look factory, guess they do it to save weight / graphic company saves material. So many panels only have 1/3...
Looks like dog shit. Does not look factory, guess they do it to save weight / graphic company saves material. So many panels only have 1/3 to 1/2 of actually any graphic on it.
tek14 wrote:
Have you ever ridden bike? Boots will destroy numbers if they come too far forward so this will prevent that happening also. Looks great btw. We...
Have you ever ridden bike? Boots will destroy numbers if they come too far forward so this will prevent that happening also. Looks great btw. We all dont want old steel frame bike with silver wheels.
tell that to every other team lol
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-MAVERICK- wrote:
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.

OT wrote:
Looks like dog shit. Does not look factory, guess they do it to save weight / graphic company saves material. So many panels only have 1/3...
Looks like dog shit. Does not look factory, guess they do it to save weight / graphic company saves material. So many panels only have 1/3 to 1/2 of actually any graphic on it.
tek14 wrote:
Have you ever ridden bike? Boots will destroy numbers if they come too far forward so this will prevent that happening also. Looks great btw. We...
Have you ever ridden bike? Boots will destroy numbers if they come too far forward so this will prevent that happening also. Looks great btw. We all dont want old steel frame bike with silver wheels.
I agree it looks stupid, but I trim mine more or less like this cause my boots rip them to shreds almost instantly
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Phil109 10/6/2021 5:20am
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Wish Yamaha would ditch all the black. Excited to see what he can do on that bike. Never thought I’d say that about this generation of Yamahas. ESP since i ride a kawi lol
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soulberg3 wrote:
[img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2021/10/05/513259/s1200_C24CCB77_E346_4869_A64A_8FE32032A882.jpg[/img] [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2021/10/05/513258/s1200_5DBDF968_4169_449F_A186_6FF6046A932E.jpg[/img]


Looks stiff in that photo, agree the number background looks dumb
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Yamaha will make the bike any color you want if you write a big enough check. Until then, looks like Monster gets to pick the color.
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dboivin 10/6/2021 2:04pm
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was a tomac fan while on green. even bigger fan with him on blue. hope he rocks this setup to some wins.
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Zycki11 10/6/2021 3:28pm
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RMT wrote:
Yamaha will make the bike any color you want if you write a big enough check. Until then, looks like Monster gets to pick the color.
Even if they went to the blue front end, flipped the shroud colors with black lines going through the shroud and kept the black back end it would be a massive step up. It’s factory Yamaha for crying out loud.
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dboivin wrote:
was a tomac fan while on green. even bigger fan with him on blue. hope he rocks this setup to some wins.
how about another townley-villo battle in the 450 class. ferrandis-tomac. could be epic
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Harv379 10/6/2021 6:20pm
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I'm a huge Eli fan but JA's intro vid was much more impressive. Hopefully he can get the bike to work for him.
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qontusolsson 10/7/2021 9:06am
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He said on the PULPMX podcast that the laptimes are better on the Yamaha. Wink
quadzrulebro 10/7/2021 9:21am
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soggy wrote:
Take it where you can get it, no?
-MAVERICK- wrote:
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
kibby wrote:
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...
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.
As I recall, Brett Downey’s (who was a top amateur racer and great friend of the Tomacs until he passed away riding) father Jim is a head honcho at PPG and is in a position to give back to the sport.
He also founded the Brett Downey Safety Foundation to share best practices to improve amateur racer safety.
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BogDogPenny 10/7/2021 9:42am
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Gary Duck wrote:
This is going to be a bigger mistake than Dungey switching to KTM
LOL
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Harv379 wrote:
I'm a huge Eli fan but JA's intro vid was much more impressive. Hopefully he can get the bike to work for him.
Spoken like a true Kawi fanboy.
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-MAVERICK- wrote:
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
This made me laugh.
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fourfourone 10/7/2021 10:29am
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Harv379 wrote:
I'm a huge Eli fan but JA's intro vid was much more impressive. Hopefully he can get the bike to work for him.
If Eli had his way there would be no intro Vid.
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qontusolsson 10/7/2021 10:56am
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Harv379 wrote:
I'm a huge Eli fan but JA's intro vid was much more impressive. Hopefully he can get the bike to work for him.
fourfourone wrote:
If Eli had his way there would be no intro Vid.
That's what I said. If he had it his way you wouldn't see him ride that thing until Anaheim 1.
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fourfourone 10/7/2021 11:04am
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qontusolsson wrote:
That's what I said. If he had it his way you wouldn't see him ride that thing until Anaheim 1.
100%
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Augustine wrote:
Dear Yamaha, [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2021/10/05/513346/s1200_8DC110E6_DDBC_4715_8268_1239070AE0C2.jpg[/img]
Dear Yamaha,


I just moved from Franklin to Old Hickory. Cool to see someone else from the area. Not many of us around.
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Harv379 wrote:
I'm a huge Eli fan but JA's intro vid was much more impressive. Hopefully he can get the bike to work for him.
fourfourone wrote:
If Eli had his way there would be no intro Vid.
qontusolsson wrote:
That's what I said. If he had it his way you wouldn't see him ride that thing until Anaheim 1.
Just a regular dude who wants to race his dirt bike. I like that about him.
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murph783 wrote:
Bingo. Check out the sweet fro on JB10 [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2021/10/05/513285/s1200_026801DA_4D0C_41BA_B7F6_FC3A47A0CCA4.jpg[/img]
Bingo. Check out the sweet fro on JB10

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Augustine 10/7/2021 8:10pm
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Augustine wrote:
Dear Yamaha, [img]https://p.vitalmx.com/photos/forums/2021/10/05/513346/s1200_8DC110E6_DDBC_4715_8268_1239070AE0C2.jpg[/img]
Dear Yamaha,


mx965 wrote:
I just moved from Franklin to Old Hickory. Cool to see someone else from the area. Not many of us around.
Sorry to see you go! Indeed, good to see another Tennessean on the board.

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